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 [ -ugsid ] [ -F quotaformat ] [ -q quotatab ] [ -c configfile ] [ -a adminsfile ] [ filesystem... ]
DESCRIPTION
warnquota checks the disk quota for specified local filesystems (or for each local filesystem if none specified) and mails a warning mes-
sage to those users who have reached their softlimit. It is typically run via cron(8).
-F, --format=quotaformat
Perform setting for specified format (ie. don't perform format autodetection). Possible format names are: vfsold Original quota
format with 16-bit UIDs / GIDs, vfsv0 Quota format with 32-bit UIDs / GIDs, 64-bit space usage, 32-bit inode usage and limits, vfsv1
Quota format with 64-bit quota limits and usage, xfs Quota on XFS filesystem.
-q, --quota-tab=quotatab
Use quotatab instead of /etc/quotatab as file with device description strings (see quotatab(5) for syntax).
-c, --config=configfile
Use configfile instead of /etc/warnquota.conf as configuration file (see warnquota.conf(5) for syntax).
-a, --admins-file=adminsfile
Use adminsfile instead of /etc/quotagrpadmins as a file with administrators of the groups (see quotagrpadmins(5) for syntax).
-u, --user
check whether users are not exceeding quotas (default).
-g, --group
check whether groups are not exceeding quotas. If group is exceeding quota a mail is sent to the user specified in /etc/quotagrpad-
mins.
-s, --human-readable
Try to report used space, number of used inodes and limits in more appropriate units than the default ones.
-i, --no-autofs
ignore mountpoints mounted by automounter.
-d, --no-details
do not attach quota report in email.
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/quotagrpadmins administrators of the groups
/etc/mtab default filesystems
/etc/passwd default set of users
SEE ALSO quota(1), quotatab(5), quotagrpadmins(5), warnquota.conf(5), 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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