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QUOTATAB(5)                                                     File Formats Manual                                                    QUOTATAB(5)

NAME
quotatab - Descriptions of devices with disk quotas SYNOPSIS
/etc/quotatab DESCRIPTION
The quotatab file lists human descriptions of devices for the purpose of warnquota(8) notifications. Each line consists of a device path name followed by a colon and a description. White space, apostrophe, and double quote characters sur- rounding the names and descriptions will be stripped. The description field can encode a new-line as a pipe character. Empty lines or lines starting with a hash sign or a semicolon are ignored. EXAMPLE
# comment /dev/sda2: Home directories.|This becomes the second line. FILES
/etc/quotatab list of device descriptions SEE ALSO
warnquota(8). QUOTATAB(5)

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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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