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QUOTA(1)		    General Commands Manual		      QUOTA(1)

NAME
       quota --	display	disk usage and limits

SYNOPSIS
       quota [-ghlu] [-f path] [-v | -q	| -r]
       quota [-hlu] [-f	path] [-v | -q | -r] user ...
       quota -g	[-hl] [-f path]	[-v | -q | -r] group ...

DESCRIPTION
       The  quota  utility  displays users' disk usage and limits.  By default
       only the	user quotas are	printed.  Disk	block  usage  and  limits  are
       shown in	1024-byte blocks.

       The following options are available:

       -f path
	       Only  display  quota  information for the file system that con-
	       tains the specified path.   This	 can  be  any  file  within  a
	       mounted file system.

       -g      Print group quotas for the group	of which the user is a member.

       -h      "Human-readable"	 output.   Use	unit suffixes: Byte, Kilobyte,
	       Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte and	Petabyte.

       -l      Do not report quotas on NFS file	systems.

       -q      Print a more terse message, containing only information on file
	       systems where usage is over quota.  The -q  flag	 takes	prece-
	       dence over the -v flag.

       -r      Display	the  raw  quota	information as it appears in the quota
	       structure.  Non-zero time values	 will  also  be	 displayed  in
	       ctime(3)	 format.  This option implies -v and will override the
	       -q flag.

       -u      Print the user quotas.  This is the default unless -g is	speci-
	       fied.

       -v      Display quotas on file systems where no storage is allocated.

       Specifying both -g and -u displays both the user	quotas and  the	 group
       quotas (for the user).

       Only  the super-user may	use the	-u flag	and the	optional user argument
       to view the limits of other users.  Non-super-users can use the -g flag
       and optional group argument to view only	the limits of groups of	 which
       they are	members.

       The  quota  utility tries to report the quotas of all mounted file sys-
       tems.  If the file system is mounted via	NFS, it	will attempt  to  con-
       tact  the  rpc.rquotad(8)  daemon on the	NFS server.  For UFS file sys-
       tems, quotas must be turned on in /etc/fstab.  If quota	exits  with  a
       non-zero	 status,  one  or more file systems are	over quota or the path
       specified with the -f option does not exist.

       If the -l flag is specified, quota will not check NFS file systems.

FILES
       quota.user   located at the file	system root with user quotas
       quota.group  located at the file	system root with group quotas
       /etc/fstab   to find file system	names and locations

SEE ALSO
       quotactl(2), ctime(3), fstab(5),	edquota(8), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8),
       repquota(8), rpc.rquotad(8)

HISTORY
       The quota command appeared in 4.2BSD.

FreeBSD	14.3		       February	3, 2007			      QUOTA(1)

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