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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 contains
	     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 precedence
	     over the -v flag.

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

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

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

     Specifying both -g and -u displays both the user quotas and the group  quo-
     tas (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 systems.
     If the file system is mounted via NFS,  it  will  attempt	to  contact  the
     rpc.rquotad(8) daemon on the NFS server.  For UFS file systems, 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 ports 15.quarterly	February 3, 2007			QUOTA(1)

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