quotaon(1M)

quotaon, quotaoff -- turn filesystem quotas on and off (generic)

Synopsis

quotaon [-F FSType] [-V] [current_options] [-o specific_options] filesystem . . .

quotaoff [-F FSType] [-V] [current_options] [-o specific_options] filesystem . . .

Description

quotaon announces to the system that disk quotas should be enabled on one or more filesystems. The filesystems specified must be mounted at the time. The filesystem quota files must be present in the root directory of the specified filesystem and be named quotas.

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

The quotaon and quotaoff commands are supported on the ufs and vxfs FStypes.

Command options

The options are:

-F

Specify the FSType on which to operate. If -F FSType is not specified it is determined by matching the inputfs device with an entry in /etc/vfstab. If this fails, heuristics similiar to those used by fstyp(1M) are used to determine the file system type.

NOTE: If the FSType is known beforehand, use the -F option. This command executes faster if it is not required to autodetect file system types.

-v

Echo the complete command line, but do not execute the command. The command line is generated by using the options and arguments provided by the user and adding to them information derived from /etc/vfstab. This option should be used to verify and validate the command line.

-o

Specify FSType-specific options.

Files

/etc/mnttab: mounted filesystems
/etc/vfstab: list of default parameters for each filesystem

References

fstyp(1M), mnttab(4), quotaon_ufs(1M), quotaon_vxfs(1M), quotaoff_vxfs(1M), vfstab(4)