Name
quota
Synopsis
quota [options] [user|group]Display disk usage and total space allowed for a designated user or group. With no argument, the quota for the current user is displayed. This command reports quotas for all filesystems listed in /etc/mtab. Most users can display only their own quota information, but the superuser can display information for any user.
Options
- -F format
Show quota for the specified format. If not specified, autodetects the format.
- -g
Given with a user argument, display the quotas for the groups of which the user is a member instead of the user’s quotas. With no argument, shows group quotas for the current user.
- -q
Display information only for filesystems in which the user is over quota.
- -s
Try to choose units for displaying limits, space used, and inodes used.
- -u
The default behavior. When used with -g, display both user and group quota information.
- -v
Display quotas for filesystems even if no storage is currently allocated.
Formats
- rpc
Quota over NFS.
- vfsold
Version 1 quota.
- vfsv0
Version 2 quota.
- xfs
Quota on XFS filesystem.
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