quota(1) manualpage

# NAME

quota - display disk usage and limits

# SYNOPSIS

quota [ -guv | q ]
quota [ -uv | q ] user
quota [ -gv | q ] group

# DESCRIPTION

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

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

Specifying both -g and -u displays both the user quotas and the group quotas (for the user).

Only the super-user may use the -u flag and the optional user argument to view the limits of other users. Non-super-users can use the the -g flag and optional group argument to view only the limits of groups of which they are members.

The -q flag takes precedence over the -v flag.

Quota reports the quotas of all the filesystems listed in /etc/fstab. For filesystems that are NFS-mounted a call to the rpc.rquotad on the server machine is performed to get the information. If quota exits with a non-zero status, one or more filesystems are over quota.

# 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

# SEE ALSO

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