QUOTAON(8) | System Manager's Manual | QUOTAON(8)

# NAME

`quotaon`, `quotaoff` — turn filesystem quotas on and off

# SYNOPSIS

`quotaon` | [`-aguv`] filesystem ...

`quotaoff` | [`-aguv`] filesystem ...

# DESCRIPTION

`quotaon` announces to the system that disk quotas should be enabled on one or more filesystems. `quotaoff` announces to the system that the specified filesystems should have any disk quotas turned off. The filesystems specified must have entries in /etc/fstab and be mounted. `quotaon` expects each filesystem to have 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. By default both user and group quotas are enabled.

The options are as follows:

`-a`
  If the `-a` flag is supplied in place of any filesystem names, `quotaon`/`quotaoff` will enable/disable all the filesystems indicated in /etc/fstab to be read-write with disk quotas. By default only the types of quotas listed in /etc/fstab are enabled.
`-g`
  Only group quotas listed in /etc/fstab should be enabled/disabled.
`-u`
  Only user quotas listed in /etc/fstab should be enabled/disabled.
`-v`
  Causes `quotaon` and `quotaoff` to print a message for each filesystem where quotas are turned on or off.

Specifying both `-g` and `-u` is equivalent to the default.

# FILES

quota.user
  at the filesystem root with user quotas
quota.group
  at the filesystem root with group quotas
/etc/fstab
  filesystem table

# SEE ALSO

quota(1), quotactl(2), fstab(5), edquota(8), quotacheck(8), repquota(8)

# HISTORY

The `quotaon` and `quotaoff` commands appeared in 4.2BSD.

May 31, 2007 | Debian