quotacheck(8)						      System Manager's Manual						     quotacheck(8)

NAME

       quotacheck - scan a filesystem for disk usage, create, check and repair quota files

SYNOPSIS

       quotacheck [ -gubcfinvdMmR ] [ -F quota-format ] -a | filesystem

DESCRIPTION

       quotacheck  examines each filesystem, builds a table of current disk usage, and compares this table against that recorded in the disk quota
       file for the filesystem (this step is ommitted if option -c is specified). If any inconsistencies are detected, both the quota file and the
       current	system	copy of the incorrect quotas are updated (the latter only occurs if an active filesystem is checked which is not advised).
       By default, only user quotas are checked.  quotacheck expects each filesystem to be checked to have quota  files  named	[a]quota.user  and
       [a]quota.group located at the root of the associated filesystem.  If a file is not present, quotacheck will create it.

       If the quota file is corrupted, quotacheck tries to save as much data as possible.  Rescuing data may need user intervention. With no addi-
       tional options quotacheck will simply exit in such a situation. When in interactive mode (option -i) , the user is asked for advice. Advice
       can also be provided from command line (see option -n) , which is useful when quotacheck is run automatically (ie. from script) and failure
       is unacceptable.

       quotacheck should be run each time the system boots and mounts non-valid filesystems.  This is most likely to happen after a system crash.

       It is strongly recommended to run quotacheck with quotas turned off for the filesystem. Otherwise, possible damage or loss to data  in  the
       quota  files  can result.  It is also unwise to run quotacheck on a live filesystem as actual usage may change during the scan.	To prevent
       this, quotacheck tries to remount the filesystem read-only before starting the scan.  After the scan is done  it  remounts  the	filesystem
       read-write.  You can disable this with option -m.  You can also make quotacheck ignore the failure to remount the filesystem read-only with
       option -M.

OPTIONS

       -b, --backup
	      Forces quotacheck to make backups of the quota file before writing the new data.

       -v, --verbose
	      quotacheck reports its operation as it progresses.  Normally it operates silently.  If the option is specified twice, also the  cur-
	      rent directory is printed (note that printing can slow down the scan measurably).

       -d, --debug
	      Enable  debugging  mode.	It will result in a lot of information which can be used in debugging the program. The output is very ver-
	      bose and the scan will be slow.

       -u, --user
	      Only user quotas listed in /etc/mtab or on the filesystems specified are to be checked.  This is the default action.

       -g, --group
	      Only group quotas listed in /etc/mtab or on the filesystems specified are to be checked.

       -c, --create-files
	      Don't read existing quota files. Just perform a new scan and save it to disk.  quotacheck also skips scanning  of  old  quota  files
	      when they are not found.

       -f, --force
	      Forces  checking	and  writing  of  new quota files on filesystems with quotas enabled. This is not recommended as the created quota
	      files may be out of sync.

       -M, --try-remount
	      This flag forces checking of filesystem in read-write mode if a remount fails. Do this only when you are sure no process will  write
	      to a filesystem while scanning.

       -m, --no-remount
	      Don't try to remount filesystem read-only. See comment with option -M.

       -i, --interactive
	      Interactive  mode.  By  default  quotacheck  exits when it finds an error. In interactive mode user is asked for input instead.  See
	      option -n.

       -n, --use-first-dquot
	      If the quota files become corrupted, it is possible for duplicate entries for a single user or group ID to exist.  Normally in  this
	      case,  quotacheck  exits or asks user for input. When this option is set, the first entry found is always used (this option works in
	      interactive mode too).

       -F, --format=format-name
	      Check and fix quota files of specified format (ie. don't perform format auto-detection). This is recommended as detection might  not
	      work  well  on corrupted quota files.  Possible format names are: vfsold (version 1 quota), vfsv0 (version 2 quota), rpc (quota over
	      NFS), xfs (quota on XFS filesystem)

       -a, --all
	      Check all mounted non-NFS filesystems in /etc/mtab

       -R, --exclude-root
	      When used together with the -a option, all filesystems except for the root filesystem are checked for quotas.

NOTE

       quotacheck should only be run by super-user. Non-privileged users are presumably not allowed to read  all  the  directories  on	the  given
       filesystem.

SEE ALSO

       quota(1), quotactl(2), fstab(5), quotaon(8), repquota(8), convertquota(8), setquota(8), edquota(8), fsck(8), efsck(8), e2fsck(8), xfsck(8)

FILES

       aquota.user or aquota.group
		      located at filesystem root with quotas (version 2 quota, non-XFS filesystems)
       quota.user or quota.group
		      located at filesystem root with quotas (version 1 quota, non-XFS filesystems)
       /etc/mtab      names and locations of mounted filesystems
AUTHOR

       Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
       Based on old quotacheck by:
       Edvard Tuinder <ed@elm.net>
       Marco van Wieringen <mvw@planets.elm.net>

								  Fri Jul 20 2001						     quotacheck(8)