NAME
quota — display disk usage and limits
DESCRIPTION
The
quota
command displays the disk usage and limits for one or more
users.
Without the
-v
option,
it displays information only when the usage exceeds the limits.
user
is a user name or a numeric
UID.
The default is the login user name.
Only users with appropriate privileges
can view the limits of other users.
Options
The
quota
command recognizes the following option:
- -v
Display the statistics whether they exceed limits or not.
Note that no usage statistics exist if no quota is set.
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Environment Variables
LC_MESSAGES
determines the language in which messages are displayed.
If
LC_MESSAGES
is not specified in the environment or is set to
the empty string, the value of
LANG
is used as a default for each
unspecified or empty variable.
If
LANG
is not specified or is set to the empty string, a default of "C" (see
lang(5))
is used instead of
LANG.
If any internationalization variable contains an invalid setting,
quota
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.
AUTHOR
Disk Quotas were developed by the University of California, Berkeley,
Sun Microsystems, Inc., and HP.
FILES
- directory/quotas
Quota statistics static storage for a file system, where
directory
is the root of the file system as specified to the
mount
command (see
mount(1M)).
- /etc/mnttab
List of currently mounted file systems
