QUOTAON(8)                                                          QUOTAON(8)



NAME
       quotaon, quotaoff - turn file system quotas on and off

SYNOPSIS
       /etc/quotaon [ -v ] _f_i_l_s_y_s_._._.

       /etc/quotaon [ -v ] -a

       /etc/quotaoff [ -v ] _f_i_l_s_y_s_._._.

       /etc/quotaoff [ -v ] -a

DESCRIPTION
       _Q_u_o_t_a_o_n  announces  to the system that disc quotas should be enabled on
       one or more file systems.  The file systems specified must have entries
       in  /etc/fstab and be mounted at the time.  The file system quota files
       must be present in the root directory of the specified file system  and
       be  named  _q_u_o_t_a_s.   The optional argument -v causes _q_u_o_t_a_o_n to print a
       message for each file system where quotas are turned on.   If,  instead
       of  a  list of file systems, a -a argument is give to _q_u_o_t_a_o_n, all file
       systems in /etc/fstab marked read-write with  quotas  will  have  their
       quotas turned on.  This is normally used at boot time to enable quotas.

       _Q_u_o_t_a_o_f_f announces to the system that  file  systems  specified  should
       have  any  disc  quotas  turned off.  As above, the -v forces a verbose
       message for each file system affected; and the  -a  option  forces  all
       file systems in /etc/fstab to have their quotas disabled.

       These  commands update the status field of devices located in _/_e_t_c_/_m_t_a_b
       to indicate when quotas are on or off for each file system.

FILES
       /etc/mtab mount table
       /etc/fstab     file system table

SEE ALSO
       setquota(2), mtab(5), fstab(5)



4.2 Berkeley Distribution       April 27, 1985                      QUOTAON(8)