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repquota

repquota(1M)						  System Administration Commands					      repquota(1M)

NAME

       repquota - summarize quotas for a ufs file system

SYNOPSIS

       repquota [-v] filesystem...

       repquota -a [-v]

DESCRIPTION

       repquota  prints a summary of the disk usage and quotas for the specified ufs file systems. The current number of files and amount of space
       (in kilobytes) is printed for each user along with any quotas created with edquota(1M).

       The filesystem must have the file  quotas in its root directory.

       Only the super-user may view quotas which are not their own.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -a	Report on all mounted ufs file systems that have rq in the  mntopts field of the /etc/vfstab file.

       -v	Report quotas for all users, even those who do not consume resources.

USAGE

       See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of repquota when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes).

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       edquota(1M), quota(1M), quotacheck(1M), quotaon(1M), attributes(5), largefile(5), quotactl(7I)

SunOS 5.10							    16 Sep 1996 						      repquota(1M)

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