This command is used to display the disk usage and quota limits for any user or any group on a file system. It is used in combination with other commands like quotacheck and/or edquota commands to manage quotas.
- About quota: To display disk usage and limits
- Comes From: quota-3.17
- Configuration Files:
- Path: /usr/bin/quota
Examples:
1. To report the quota for current user
| # quota # quota -u mike (for mike) # quota –user mike (for mike) # quota mike (for mike) |
2. To show the group quotas
| # quota -g SUPPORT # quota –group SUPPORT |
3. To set to verbose mode
| # quota -v # quota –verbose |
4. To see the output in human readable format
| # quota -s # quota –human-readable |
5. To report time in seconds since epoch when his grace time runs out, in grace period
| # quota -p # quota –raw-grace |
6. To ignore mountpoints mounted by automounter
| # quota -i # quota –no-autofs |
7. To report quotas only on local filesystems
| # quota -l # quota –local-only |
8. To specify the trailing slashes after the NFSv4 mountpoints
| # quota -m # quota –no-mixed-pathnames |
9. To print a more terse message
| # quota -q # quota –quiet |
10. To do not print error message if connection to rpc.rquotad is refused
| # quota -Q # quota –quiet-refuse |
11. To do not wrap the line if the device name is too long
| # quota -w # quota –no-wrap |
12. To get the help for quota
| # quota –help |
13. To get the version
| # quota -V # quota –version |
Related Commands: quotactl, fstab, edquota, quotacheck, quotaon, quota_nld, repquota
