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Old 10-09-2001
On my Linux system I have the "warnquota" command. It is probably part of the quota package on other systems too...


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NAME
warnquota - send mail to users over quota

SYNOPSIS
warnquota

DESCRIPTION
warnquota checks the disk quota for each filesystem and mails a warning message to those
users who have reached their limit. It is typically run via cron(8).
 

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

NAME
warnquota - send mail to users over quota SYNOPSIS
warnquota [ -F quotaformat ] [ -q quotatab ] [ -c configfile ] DESCRIPTION
warnquota checks the disk quota for each filesystem and mails a warning message to those users who have reached their limit. It is typi- cally run via cron(8). -F quotaformat Perform setting for specified format (ie. don't perform format autodetection). Possible format names are: vfsold (version 1 quota), vfsv0 (version 2 quota), rpc (quota over NFS), xfs (quota on XFS filesystem) -q quotatab Use quotatab instead of /etc/quotatab as file with device description strings (see example file for syntax). -c configfile Use configfile instead of /etc/warnquota.conf as configuration file (see example file for syntax). FILES
aquota.user quota file at the filesystem root (version 2 quota, non-XFS filesystems) quota.user quota file at the filesystem root (version 1 quota, non-XFS filesystems) /etc/warnquota.conf configuration file /etc/quotatab device description /etc/mtab default filesystems /etc/passwd default set of users SEE ALSO
quota(1), cron(8), edquota(8). AUTHORS
warnquota(8) was written by Marco van Wieringen <mvw@planets.elm.net>, modifications by Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>. This reference page writ- ten by Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de>, modifications by Jan Kara WARNQUOTA(8)
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