linux man page for quotaon

quotaon(1M)                                               System Administration Commands                                               quotaon(1M)

NAME
       quotaon, quotaoff - turn ufs file system quotas on and off

SYNOPSIS
       quotaon [-v] filesystem...

       quotaon -a [-v]

       quotaoff [-v] filesystem...

       quotaoff -a [-v]

DESCRIPTION
       quotaon turns on disk quotas for one or more ufs file systems.

       Before  a file system may have quotas enabled, a file named quotas, owned by root, must exist in the root directory of the file system. See
       edquota(1M) for details on how to modify the contents of this file.

       quotaoff turns off disk quotas for one or more ufs file systems.

       The file systems specified must already be mounted.

       These commands update the mntopts field of the appropriate entries in /etc/mnttab to indicate when quotas are on or off for each file  sys-
       tem. If quotas are on, the string quota will be added to mntopts; if quotas are off, the quota string is not present.

       filesystem must be either the mount point of a file system, or the block device on which the file system resides.

OPTIONS
   quotaon
       -a       This option is normally used at boot time to enable quotas. It applies only to those file systems in /etc/vfstab which have ``rq''
                in the mntopts field, are currently mounted ``rw'', and have a  quotas file in the root directory.

       -v       Display a message for each file system after quotas are turned on.

   quotaoff
       -a       Force all file systems in /etc/mnttab to have their quotas disabled.

       -v       Display a message for each file system affected.

USAGE
       See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of quotaon and quotaoff when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte  (  2
      **31 bytes).

FILES
       /etc/mnttab     mounted file systems

       /etc/vfstab     list of default parameters for each file system

ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWcsu                      |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO
       edquota(1M), quota(1M), quotacheck(1M), repquota(1M), mnttab(4), vfstab(4), attributes(5), largefile(5), quotactl(7I)

SunOS 5.10                                                          16 Sep 1996                                                        quotaon(1M)