NAME

quotacheck − file system quota consistency checker

SYNOPSIS

/usr/etc/quotacheck [ −v ] filesystem... 
/usr/etc/quotacheck [ −v ] −a

DESCRIPTION

Quotacheck examines each file system, builds a table of current disk usage, and compares this table against that stored in the disk quota file for the file system.  If any inconsistencies are detected, both the quota file and the current system copy of the incorrect quotas are updated (the latter only occurs if an active file system is checked). 

If the −a flag is supplied in place of any file system names, quotacheck will check all the file systems indicated in /etc/fstab to be read-write with disk quotas. 

Normally quotacheck reports only those quotas modified.  If the −v option is supplied, quotacheck will indicate the calculated disk quotas for each user on a particular file system. 

Quotacheck expects each file system to be checked to have a quota file named quotas in the root directory.  If none is present, quotacheck will ignore the file system. 

Quotacheck is normally run at boot time from the /etc/rc.local file, see rc(8), before enabling disk quotas with quotaon(8).

Quotacheck accesses the raw device in calculating the actual disk usage for each user.  Thus, the file systems checked should be quiescent while quotacheck is running. 

FILES

/etc/fstabdefault file systems

SEE ALSO

quota(2), edquota(8), quotaon(8)

Sun System Release 1.0  —  28 June 1983