WARNQUOTA(8)

NAME
warnquota - send mail to users over quota

SYNOPSIS
warnquota [ -ugsid ] [ -F quotaformat ] [ -q quotatab ] [ -c configfile ] [ -a adminsfile ]

DESCRIPTION
warnquota checks the disk quota for each filesystem and mails a warning message to those users who have reached their softlimit. It is typically run via cron(8).

-F quotaformat
    Perform setting for specified format (ie. don't perform format autodetection). Possible format names are: vfsold (version 1 quota), vfsv0 (version 2 quota), rpc (quota over NFS), xfs (quota on XFS filesystem)

-q quotatab
    Use quotatab instead of /etc/quotatab as file with device description strings (see example file for syntax).

-c configfile
    Use configfile instead of /etc/warnquota.conf as configuration file (see example file for syntax).

-a adminsfile
    Use adminsfile instead of /etc/quotagrpadmins as a file with administrators of the groups.

-u  check whether users are not exceeding quotas (default).

-g  check whether groups are not exceeding quotas. If group is exceeding quota a mail is sent to the user specified in /etc/quotagrpadmins.

-s  Try to report used space, number of used inodes and limits in more appropriate units than the default ones.

-i  ignore mountpoints mounted by automounter.

-d  don't attach quota report in email.

FILES
aquota.user
    quota file at the filesystem root (version 2 quota, non-XFS filesystems)
quota.user
    quota file at the filesystem root (version 1 quota, non-XFS filesystems)
/etc/warnquota.conf
    configuration file
/etc/quotatab
    device description
/etc/quotagrpadmins
    administrators of the groups
/etc/mtab
    default filesystems
/etc/passwd
    default set of users

SEE ALSO
quota(1), cron(8), edquota(8).

AUTHORS
warnquota(8) was written by Marco van Wieringen <mvw@planets.elm.net>, modifications by Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>. This reference page written by Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de>, modifications by Jan Kara