QUOTA(1) | General Commands Manual | QUOTA(1)

# NAME

`quota` — display disk usage and limits

# SYNOPSIS

`quota` | [`-q` | `-v`] [`-gu`]

`quota` | [`-q` | `-v`] `-g` group ...

`quota` | [`-q` | `-v`] `-u` user ...

# DESCRIPTION

`quota` displays users' disk usage and limits. By default only the user quotas are printed.

The options are as follows:

`-g`
  Print group quotas for the group of which the user is a member.
`-q`
  Print a more terse message, containing only information on filesystems where usage is over quota. This flag takes precedence over the `-v` flag.
`-u`
  Print user quotas for the user. This flag is equivalent to the default.
`-v`
  `quota` will display quotas on filesystems where no storage is allocated.

Only the superuser may use the `-g` and `-u` flags to view the limits of other groups and users. Non-superusers can use the `-g` and `-u` flags to view the limits of groups of which they are members as well as their own user limits.

`quota` tries to report the quotas of all mounted filesystems. If the filesystem is mounted via NFS, it will attempt to contact the rpc.rquotad(8) daemon on the NFS server. For FFS filesystems, quotas must be turned on in /etc/fstab.

# FILES

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

# EXIT STATUS

The `quota` utility exits 0 on success, and with a non-zero value if one or more filesystems are over quota.

# SEE ALSO

quotactl(2), fstab(5), edquota(8), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8), repquota(8), rpc.rquotad(8)

# HISTORY

The `quota` command appeared in 4.2BSD.

February 21, 2020 | Debian