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34.\"     @(#)quotaon.8	8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93
35.\" $FreeBSD$
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37.Dd December 11, 1993
38.Dt QUOTAON 8
39.Os BSD 4.2
40.Sh NAME
41.Nm quotaon ,
42.Nm quotaoff
43.Nd turn filesystem quotas on and off
44.Sh SYNOPSIS
45.Nm
46.Op Fl g
47.Op Fl u
48.Op Fl v
49.Ar filesystem Ar ...
50.Nm
51.Op Fl g
52.Op Fl u
53.Op Fl v
54.Fl a
55.Nm quotaoff
56.Op Fl g
57.Op Fl u
58.Op Fl v
59.Ar filesystem Ar ...
60.Nm quotaoff
61.Op Fl g
62.Op Fl u
63.Op Fl v
64.Fl a
65.Sh DESCRIPTION
66.Nm Quotaon
67announces to the system that disk quotas should be enabled on one or more
68filesystems.
69.Nm Quotaoff
70announces to the system that the specified
71filesystems should have any disk quotas
72diskquotas turned off.
73The filesystems specified must have entries in
74.Pa /etc/fstab
75and be mounted.
76.Nm Quotaon
77expects each filesystem to have quota files named
78.Pa quota.user
79and
80.Pa quota.group
81which are located at the root of the associated file system.
82These defaults may be overridden in
83.Pa /etc/fstab .
84By default both user and group quotas are enabled.
85.Pp
86Available options:
87.Bl -tag -width indent
88.It Fl a
89If supplied in place of any filesystem names,
90.Nm Ns / Ns Nm quotaoff
91will enable/disable all the filesystems indicated in
92.Pa /etc/fstab
93to be read-write with disk quotas.
94By default only the types of quotas listed in
95.Pa /etc/fstab
96are enabled.
97.It Fl g
98Only group quotas listed in
99.Pa /etc/fstab
100should be enabled/disabled.
101.It Fl u
102Only user quotas listed in
103.Pa /etc/fstab
104should be enabled/disabled.
105.It Fl v
106Cause
107.Nm
108and
109.Nm quotaoff
110to print a message for each filesystem where quotas are turned on or off.
111.El
112.Pp
113Specifying both
114.Fl g
115and
116.Fl u
117is equivalent to the default.
118.Sh FILES
119.Bl -tag -width quota.group -compact
120.It Pa quota.user
121at the filesystem root with user quotas
122.It Pa quota.group
123at the filesystem root with group quotas
124.It Pa /etc/fstab
125filesystem table
126.El
127.Sh SEE ALSO
128.Xr quota 1 ,
129.Xr quotactl 2 ,
130.Xr fstab 5 ,
131.Xr edquota 8 ,
132.Xr quotacheck 8 ,
133.Xr repquota 8
134.Sh HISTORY
135The
136.Nm
137command appeared in
138.Bx 4.2 .
139