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34.\"     @(#)quotaon.8	8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93
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36.Dd December 11, 1993
37.Dt QUOTAON 8
38.Os BSD 4.2
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm quotaon ,
41.Nm quotaoff
42.Nd turn filesystem quotas on and off
43.Sh SYNOPSIS
44.Nm quotaon
45.Op Fl g
46.Op Fl u
47.Op Fl v
48.Ar filesystem Ar ...
49.Nm quotaon
50.Op Fl g
51.Op Fl u
52.Op Fl v
53.Fl a
54.Nm quotaoff
55.Op Fl g
56.Op Fl u
57.Op Fl v
58.Ar filesystem Ar ...
59.Nm quotaoff
60.Op Fl g
61.Op Fl u
62.Op Fl v
63.Fl a
64.Sh DESCRIPTION
65.Nm Quotaon
66announces to the system that disk quotas should be enabled on one or more
67filesystems.
68.Nm Quotaoff
69announces to the system that the specified
70filesystems should have any disk quotas
71diskquotas turned off.
72The filesystems specified must have entries in
73.Pa /etc/fstab
74and be mounted.
75.Nm Quotaon
76expects each filesystem to have quota files named
77.Pa quota.user
78and
79.Pa quota.group
80which are located at the root of the associated file system.
81These defaults may be overridden in
82.Pa /etc/fstab .
83By default both user and group quotas are enabled.
84.Pp
85Available options:
86.Bl -tag -width indent
87.It Fl a
88If supplied in place of any filesystem names,
89.Nm quotaon Ns / Ns Nm quotaoff
90will enable/disable all the filesystems indicated in
91.Pa /etc/fstab
92to be read-write with disk quotas.
93By default only the types of quotas listed in
94.Pa /etc/fstab
95are enabled.
96.It Fl g
97Only group quotas listed in
98.Pa /etc/fstab
99should be enabled/disabled.
100.It Fl u
101Only user quotas listed in
102.Pa /etc/fstab
103should be enabled/disabled.
104.It Fl v
105Cause
106.Nm quotaon
107and
108.Nm quotaoff
109to print a message for each filesystem where quotas are turned on or off.
110.El
111.Pp
112Specifying both
113.Fl g
114and
115.Fl u
116is equivalent to the default.
117.Sh FILES
118.Bl -tag -width quota.group -compact
119.It Pa quota.user
120at the filesystem root with user quotas
121.It Pa quota.group
122at the filesystem root with group quotas
123.It Pa /etc/fstab
124filesystem table
125.El
126.Sh SEE ALSO
127.Xr quota 1 ,
128.Xr quotactl 2 ,
129.Xr fstab 5 ,
130.Xr edquota 8 ,
131.Xr quotacheck 8 ,
132.Xr repquota 8
133.Sh HISTORY
134The
135.Nm
136command appeared in
137.Bx 4.2 .
138