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QUOTA(1) General Commands Manual QUOTA(1)

quotadisplay disk usage and limits

quota [-g] [-u] [-v | -q]

quota [-u] [-v | -q] user

quota [-g] [-v | -q] group

Quota displays users' disk usage and limits. By default only the user quotas are printed.

Options:

Print group quotas for the group of which the user is a member. The optional -u flag is equivalent to the default.
quota will display quotas on filesystems where no storage is allocated.
Print a more terse message, containing only information on filesystems where usage is over quota.

Specifying both -g and -u displays both the user quotas and the group quotas (for the user).

Only the super-user may use the -u flag and the optional user argument to view the limits of other users. Non-super-users can use the the -g flag and optional group argument to view only the limits of groups of which they are members.

The -q flag takes precedence over the -v flag.

Quota reports the quotas of all the filesystems listed in /etc/fstab. If quota exits with a non-zero status, one or more filesystems are over quota.

quota.user
located at the filesystem root with user quotas
quota.group
located at the filesystem root with group quotas
/etc/fstab
to find filesystem names and locations

The quota command appeared in 4.2BSD.

quotactl(2), fstab(5), edquota(8), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8), repquota(8)

BSD 4.2 June 6, 1993 QUOTA(1)