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

NAME
     quotaon, quotaoff -- turn filesystem quotas on and off

SYNOPSIS
     quotaon [-g] [-u] [-v] filesystem ...
     quotaon [-g] [-u] [-v] -a
     quotaoff [-g] [-u] [-v] filesystem ...
     quotaoff [-g] [-u] [-v] -a

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 disk quotas turned off.
     The filesystem must be mounted and it must have the appropriate mount option file located at its root,
     the .quota.ops.user file for user quota configuration, and the .quota.ops.group file for group quota
     configuration.  Quotaon also expects each filesystem to have the appropriate quota data files located
     at its root, the .quota.user file for user data, and the .quota.group file for group data.  These file-names filenames
     names and their root location cannot be overridden.  By default, quotaon will attempt to enable both
     user and group quotas.  By default, quotaoff will disable both user and group quotas.

     Available options:

     -a      If the -a flag is supplied in place of any filesystem names, quotaon/quotaoff will enable/dis-able enable/disable
             able any filesystems with an existing mount option file at its root.  The mount option file
             specifies the types of quotas that are to be configured.

     -g      Only group quotas will be enabled/disabled.  The mount option file, .quota.ops.group, must
             exist at the root of the filesystem.

     -u      Only user quotas will be enabled/disabled.  The mount option file, .quota.ops.user, must exist
             at the root of the filesystem.

     -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.

     Quotas for both users and groups will automatically be turned on at filesystem mount if the appropriate
     mount option file and binary data file is in place at its root.

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 indicates that quotas are to be enabled for that filesystem.

     .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), quotacheck(8), repquota(8)

HISTORY
     The quotaon command appeared in 4.2BSD.

4.2 Berkeley Distribution      October 17, 2002      4.2 Berkeley Distribution