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<H1>NAME</H1>
quotaon, quotaoff - turn file system quotas on and off
<H1>SYNOPSIS</H1>
<B>quotaon</B>
[
<B>-vug</B>
]
<B>filesystem</B>
<BR>
<B>quotaon</B>
[
<B>-avug</B>
]
<P>
<B>quotaoff</B>
[
<B>-vug</B>
]
<B>filesystem</B>
<BR>
<B>quotaoff</B>
[
<B>-avug</B>
]
<H1>DESCRIPTION</H1>
<B>quotaon</B>
announces to the system that disk quotas should be enabled on one or
more file systems. The file system quota files must be present in the root
directory of the specified file system and be named
<B>quota.user</B>
for userquota or
<B>quota.group</B>
for groupquota.
<P>
<B>quotaoff</B>
announces to the system that file systems specified should have any disk quotas turned off.
<H1>OPTIONS</H1>
<UL>
<LI>
<B>-a</B>
<BR>
All file systems in
<B>/etc/fstab</B>
marked read-write with quotas will have their quotas turned on. This is normally used at
boot time to enable quotas.
<LI>
<B>-v</B>
<BR>
Display a message for each file system where quotas are turned on.
<LI>
<B>-u</B>
<BR>
Manupulate user quotas. This is the default.
<LI>
<B>-g</B>
<BR>
Manupulate group quotas.
</UL>
<H1>FILES</H1>
<B>quota.user</B>
 : located at the filesystem root with user quotas
<BR>
<B>quota.group</B>
 : located at the filesystem root with group quotas
<BR>
<B>/etc/fstab</B>
 : to find filesystem names and locations
<H1>SEE ALSO</H1>
<A HREF="quotactl(2).html">quotactl (2)</A>,
<A HREF="fstab(5).html">fstab (5)</A>
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