Linux in a Nutshell, 6th Edition

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. Most users can display only their own quota information, but the superuser can display information for any user. This command reports quotas for all filesystems listed in /etc/mtab. For NFS-mounted filesystems, quota calls rpc.rquotad on the server machine for the information.

Options

-A, --all-nfs

Report quotas for all NFS filesystems.

-F format, --format=format

Check quota files for the specified format.

-g, --group

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.

-i, --no-autofs

Igonore mountpoints that are mounted by the automounter.

-l, --local-only

Only report quotas on local filesystems.

-p, --raw-grace

When user is in a grace period, print a timestamp (seconds since epoch) marking when the grace period expires.

-q, --quiet

Display information only for filesystems in which the user is over quota.

-Q, --quiet-refuse

For NFS-mounted filesystems. do not print an error message if the connection to rpc.rquotad is refused (usually because it is not running on the server).

-s, --human-readable

Try to choose units for displaying limits, space used, and inodes used.

-u, --user

The default behavior. When used with -g, display both user and group quota information.

-v, --verbose

Display quotas ...