vquota(8) - Manual pages

NAME

vquota — VFS quota system utility

vquota [-D | -h] command argument

This manual page documents the vquota utility which provides functions for managing virtual file system accounting and quotas.

To use the vquota utility, the vfs.quota_enabled tunable needs to be set in loader.conf(5).

The following options are available:

-D: Debug flag, show raw messages sent to and received from kernel
-h: "Human-readable" output. Use unit suffixes: Byte, Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte and Petabyte in order to reduce the number of digits to four or fewer.
-n: Show raw user and group ids. Normally vquota attempts to resolve and display full user and group names.

The commands are as follows:

check directory: Reports the space (in bytes) occupied by files names located in the directory hierarchy present under directory.
lsfs: List mounted file systems having space accounting enabled
show mount_point: Show file size usage and quota limits for the file system mounted under mount_point. The information is broken down by uid and gid and is expressed by default in bytes.
sync mount_point: Initialize in one go the usage counters for the filesystem mounted under mount_point with real usage data. This command scans an entire filesystem directory hierarchy and may be slow to run
limit mount_point size: Set a global quota of size bytes for the filesystem mounted under mount_point.
ulim mount_point user size: Set a quota of size bytes for the filesystem mounted under mount_point and the specified user.
glim mount_point group size: Set a quota of size bytes for the filesystem mounted under mount_point and the specified group.

A limit of 0 effectively means checks are disabled.

The following is an example of a typical usage of the vquota command:

vquota show /mnt/data

The vquota utility first appeared in DragonFly 2.13.