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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 27.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 28.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 29.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 30.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 31.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 32.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 33.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 34.\" 35.\" @(#)quotacheck.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93 36.\" $FreeBSD$ 37.\" 38.Dd June 5, 1993 39.Dt QUOTACHECK 8 40.Os BSD 4.2 41.Sh NAME 42.Nm quotacheck 43.Nd filesystem quota consistency checker 44.Sh SYNOPSIS 45.Nm 46.Op Fl g 47.Op Fl u 48.Op Fl v 49.Ar filesystem 50.Ar 51.Nm 52.Op Fl g 53.Op Fl u 54.Op Fl v 55.Fl a 56.Sh DESCRIPTION 57.Nm Quotacheck 58examines each filesystem, 59builds a table of current disk usage, 60and compares this table against that recorded 61in the disk quota file for the filesystem. 62If any inconsistencies are detected, both the 63quota file and the current system copy of the 64incorrect quotas are updated (the latter only 65occurs if an active filesystem is checked). 66By default both user and group quotas are checked. 67.Pp 68The following options are available: 69.Bl -tag -width indent 70.It Fl a 71If supplied in place of any filesystem names, 72.Nm 73will check all the filesystems indicated in 74.Pa /etc/fstab 75to be read-write with disk quotas. 76By default only the types of quotas listed in 77.Pa /etc/fstab 78are checked. 79.It Fl g 80Only group quotas listed in 81.Pa /etc/fstab 82are to be checked. 83.It Fl u 84Only user quotas listed in 85.Pa /etc/fstab 86are to be checked. 87.It Fl v 88.Nm Quotacheck 89reports discrepancies between the 90calculated and recorded disk quotas and other additional diagnostic messages. 91.El 92.Pp 93Specifying both 94.Fl g 95and 96.Fl u 97is equivalent to the default. 98Parallel passes are run on the filesystems required, 99using the pass numbers in 100.Pa /etc/fstab 101in an identical fashion to 102.Xr fsck 8 . 103.Pp 104Normally, 105.Nm 106operates silently. 107.Pp 108.Nm Quotacheck 109expects each filesystem to be checked to have a 110quota files named 111.Pa quota.user 112and 113.Pa quota.group 114which are located at the root of the associated file system. 115These defaults may be overridden in 116.Pa /etc/fstab . 117If a file is not present, 118.Nm 119will create it. 120These files should be edited with the 121.Xr edquota 8 122utility. 123.Pp 124.Nm Quotacheck 125is normally run at boot time from the 126.Pa /etc/rc 127file. 128The rc startup procedure is controlled by the 129.Pa /etc/rc.conf 130variable 131.Ar check_quotas . 132Note that to enable this functionality in 133.Pa /etc/rc 134you also need to enable startup quota procedures 135with the variable 136.Ar enable_quotas 137in 138.Pa /etc/rc.conf . 139.Pp 140.Nm Quotacheck 141accesses the raw device in calculating the actual 142disk usage for each user. 143Thus, the filesystems 144checked should be quiescent while 145.Nm 146is running. 147.Sh FILES 148.Bl -tag -width quota.group -compact 149.It Pa quota.user 150at the filesystem root with user quotas 151.It Pa quota.group 152at the filesystem root with group quotas 153.It Pa /etc/fstab 154default filesystems 155.El 156.Sh SEE ALSO 157.Xr quota 1 , 158.Xr quotactl 2 , 159.Xr fstab 5 , 160.Xr edquota 8 , 161.Xr fsck 8 , 162.Xr quotaon 8 , 163.Xr repquota 8 164.Sh HISTORY 165The 166.Nm 167command appeared in 168.Bx 4.2 . 169