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).
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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
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