NAME

quotaon, quotaoff − turn filesystem quotas on and off

SYNOPSIS

/usr/etc/quotaon [ −v ] filesystem... 

/usr/etc/quotaon [ −v ] −a

/usr/etc/quotaoff [ −v ] filesystem... 

/usr/etc/quotaoff [ −v ] −a

DESCRIPTION

quotaon announces to the system that disk quotas should be enabled on one or more filesystems.  The filesystems specified must have entries in /etc/fstab and be mounted at the time.  The filesystem quota files must be present in the root directory of the specified filesystem and be named quotas. The optional −v argument causes quotaon to print a message for each filesystem that has quotas turned on.  If quotaon has an −a argument instead of a list of filesystems, quotas are turned on for all filesystems whose entries in /etc/fstab indicate that they allow read-write access and have quotas.  This option is normally used to enable quotas at boot time. 

quotaoff announces to the system that filesystems specified should have any disk quotas turned off.  As above, the −v option forces a verbose message for each filesystem affected, and the −a option disables quotas for all filesystems listed in /etc/fstab . 

These commands update the status field of devices located in /etc/mtab to indicate when quotas are on or off for each filesystem. 

FILES

/etc/mtab mount table

/etc/fstab filesystem table

SEE ALSO

quotactl(2), mtab(5), fstab(5)

4BSD