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30.\"     @(#)quotaon.8	8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93
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33.Dd December 11, 1993
34.Dt QUOTAON 8
35.Os
36.Sh NAME
37.Nm quotaon ,
38.Nm quotaoff
39.Nd turn file system quotas on and off
40.Sh SYNOPSIS
41.Nm
42.Op Fl g
43.Op Fl u
44.Op Fl v
45.Ar filesystem Ar ...
46.Nm
47.Op Fl g
48.Op Fl u
49.Op Fl v
50.Fl a
51.Nm quotaoff
52.Op Fl g
53.Op Fl u
54.Op Fl v
55.Ar filesystem Ar ...
56.Nm quotaoff
57.Op Fl g
58.Op Fl u
59.Op Fl v
60.Fl a
61.Sh DESCRIPTION
62The
63.Nm
64utility
65announces to the system that disk quotas should be enabled on one or more
66file systems.
67The
68.Nm quotaoff
69utility announces to the system that the specified
70file systems should have any disk quotas turned off.
71The file systems specified must have entries in
72.Pa /etc/fstab
73and be mounted.
74The
75.Nm
76utility expects each file system 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 file system names,
89.Nm Ns / Ns Nm quotaoff
90will enable/disable all the file systems 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
107and
108.Nm quotaoff
109to print a message for each file system 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 file system root with user quotas
121.It Pa quota.group
122at the file system root with group quotas
123.It Pa /etc/fstab
124file system 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
136utility appeared in
137.Bx 4.2 .
138