quotaon(1M)quotaon(1M)NAME
quotaon, quotaoff - turn HFS file system quotas on and off
SYNOPSIS
filesystem ...
filesystem ...
Remarks
These commands are provided for compatibility only. Their use is nei‐
ther required nor recommended because and enable and disable quotas
cleanly (see mount(1M)). See below for more information.
DESCRIPTION
The command enables quotas on one or more file systems. Group quotas
cannot be enabled on HFS file systems.
The command disables quotas on one or more HFS file systems.
filesystem is either the name of the mount point of the file system, or
the name of the block device containing the file system. The file sys‐
tems specified must be currently mounted in order to turn quotas on or
off. Also, the file system quota files, (for user quotas) and (for
group quotas) must be present in the root directory of each specified
file system.
These commands will update the appropriate entries in to indicate that
quotas are on or off for each file system.
When enabling quotas interactively after boot time, the command should
be run immediately afterward (see below).
Use (see mount(1M)) to determine whether quotas are enabled on mounted
file systems.
Options
The following options affect the behavior described above.
Obtain the
filesystem list from using entries of type and (or with
the option, for user quotas and option, for group quotas
(see fstab(4)).
Turn on or off group quotas only.
Turn on or off user quotas (the default) only.
Generate a message for each file system affected.
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Environment Variables
determines the language in which messages are displayed.
If is not specified in the environment or is set to the empty string,
the value of is used as a default for each unspecified or empty vari‐
able. If is not specified or is set to the empty string, a default of
"C" (see lang(5)) is used instead of
If any internationalization variable contains an invalid setting,
behaves as if all internationalization variables are set to "C". See
environ(5).
International Code Set Support
Single and multi-byte character code sets are supported.
WARNINGS
Using to disable quotas on a file system causes the system to discon‐
tinue tracking quotas for that file system, and marks the flag in the
superblock (see fsclean(1M)). This in turn, forces a the next time the
system is booted. Since quotas are enabled and disabled cleanly by and
anyway, the use of and is generally discouraged.
AUTHOR
Disk quotas were developed by the University of California, Berkeley,
Sun Microsystems, Inc., and HP.
FILES
Static information about the file systems
Mount file system table
Group and user quota statistics static storage for a
file system respectively, where direc‐
tory is the root of the file system as
specified to the command (see
mount(1M)).
SEE ALSOfsclean(1M), mount(1M), quotacheck(1M), quotacheck_hfs(1M), quo‐
tacheck_vxfs(1M), quota(5).
quotaon(1M)
