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

NAME
       quotacheck -- file system quota consistency checker

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

DESCRIPTION
       The  quotacheck	utility	 examines  each	file system, builds a table of
       current disk usage, and compares	this table against  that  recorded  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	incor-
       rect quotas are updated (the latter only	occurs if an active file  sys-
       tem is checked).	 By default both user and group	quotas are checked.

       The following options are available:

       -a      If  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.  By default only the types of	quotas
	       listed in /etc/fstab are	checked.

       -g      Only group quotas listed	in /etc/fstab are to be	checked.

       -u      Only user quotas	listed in /etc/fstab are to be checked.

       -v      Report discrepancies between the	calculated and	recorded  disk
	       quotas and other	additional diagnostic messages.

       Specifying  both	 -g  and  -u  is  equivalent to	the default.  Parallel
       passes are run on the file systems required, using the pass numbers  in
       /etc/fstab in an	identical fashion to fsck(8).

       Normally, quotacheck operates silently.

       The quotacheck utility expects each file	system to be checked to	have a
       quota  files  named quota.user and quota.group which are	located	at the
       root of the associated file system.  These defaults may	be  overridden
       in  /etc/fstab.	 If  a file is not present, quotacheck will create it.
       These files should be edited with the edquota(8)	utility.

       The quotacheck utility is normally run at boot time  from  the  /etc/rc
       file.  The rc startup procedure is controlled by	the /etc/rc.conf vari-
       able  check_quotas.   Note that to enable this functionality in /etc/rc
       you also	need to	enable startup	quota  procedures  with	 the  variable
       enable_quotas in	/etc/rc.conf.

       The  quotacheck	utility	accesses the raw device	in calculating the ac-
       tual disk usage for each	user.  Thus, the file systems  checked	should
       be quiescent while quotacheck is	running.

FILES
       quota.user   at the file	system root with user quotas
       quota.group  at the file	system root with group quotas
       /etc/fstab   default file systems

SEE ALSO
       quota(1),   quotactl(2),	 fstab(5),  edquota(8),	 fsck(8),  quotaon(8),
       repquota(8)

HISTORY
       The quotacheck utility appeared in 4.2BSD.

FreeBSD	5.5			 June 5, 1993			 QUOTACHECK(8)

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