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QUOTACHECK(8)		     System Manager's Manual		   QUOTACHECK(8)

NAME
     quotacheck -- filesystem quota consistency checker

SYNOPSIS
     quotacheck [-g] [-u] [-v] filesystem ...
     quotacheck [-g] [-u] [-v] -a

DESCRIPTION
     Quotacheck  examines each filesystem, builds a table of current disk usage,
     and compares this table against that recorded in the disk	quota  file  for
     the  filesystem.	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 filesystem is checked).  By default both user  and
     group quotas are checked.

     Available options:

     -a      If  the  -a  flag	is  supplied  in  place of any filesystem names,
	     quotacheck will check all the read-write filesystems with an exist-
	     ing mount option file at its root.  The mount option file specifies
	     the types of quotas that are to be checked.

     -g      Only  group  quotas   are	 checked.   The   mount   option   file,
	     .quota.ops.group, must exist at the root of the filesystem.

     -u      Only   user   quotas   are   checked.    The   mount  option  file,
	     .quota.ops.user, must exist at the root of the filesystem.

     -v      quotacheck  reports  discrepancies  between  the	calculated   and
	     recorded disk quotas.

     Specifying  both  -g  and -u is equivalent to the default.  Parallel passes
     are run on the filesystems required, in an identical fashion to fsck(8).

     Normally quotacheck operates silently.

     Quotacheck expects each filesystem being checked to have quota  data  files
     named .quota.user and/or .quota.group located at the filesystem root.  If a
     binary  data  file  is not present, quotacheck will create it.  The default
     filename and root location cannot be overridden.

     Quotacheck is normally run at fsck time.

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

FILES
     Each  of  the  following  quota files is located at the root of the mounted
     filesystem.  The mount option files are empty files whose	existence  indi-
     cates  that  quotas  are to be enabled for that filesystem. The binary data
     files will be created by quotacheck, if they don't already exist.

     .quota.user       data file containing user quotas
     .quota.group      data file containing group quotas
     .quota.ops.user   mount option file used to enable user quotas
     .quota.ops.group  mount option file used to enable group quotas

SEE ALSO
     quota(1), quotactl(2), edquota(8), fsck(8), quotaon(8), repquota(8)

HISTORY
     The quotacheck command appeared in 4.2BSD.

4.2 Berkeley Distribution	October 17, 2002		   QUOTACHECK(8)

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