quotaon(8) manualpage

# NAME

quotaon, quotaoff - turn file system quotas on and off

# SYNOPSIS

quotaon [ -vug ] filesystem
quotaon [ -avug ]

quotaoff [ -vug ] filesystem
quotaoff [ -avug ]

# DESCRIPTION

quotaon announces to the system that disk quotas should be enabled on one or more file systems. The file system quota files must be present in the root directory of the specified file system and be named quota.user for userquota or quota.group for groupquota.

quotaoff announces to the system that file systems specified should have any disk quotas turned off.

# OPTIONS

- -a
  All file systems in /etc/fstab marked read-write with quotas will have their quotas turned on. This is normally used at boot time to enable quotas.
- -v
  Display a message for each file system where quotas are turned on.
- -u
  Manupulate user quotas. This is the default.
- -g
  Manupulate group quotas.

# 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)