WARNQUOTA(8) manual page
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warnquota - send mail to users over quota
warnquota [ -ugsid
] [ -F quotaformat ] [ -q quotatab ] [ -c configfile ] [ -a adminsfile ] [
filesystem... ]
warnquota checks the disk quota for specified local
filesystems (or for each local filesystem if none specified) and mails
a warning message to those users who have reached their softlimit. It is
typically run via cron(8)
.
- -F, --format=quotaformat
- Perform setting for specified
format (ie. don’t perform format autodetection). Possible format names are:
vfsold Original quota format with 16-bit UIDs / GIDs, vfsv0 Quota format
with 32-bit UIDs / GIDs, 64-bit space usage, 32-bit inode usage and limits,
vfsv1 Quota format with 64-bit quota limits and usage, xfs Quota on XFS
filesystem.
- -q, --quota-tab=quotatab
- Use quotatab instead of /etc/quotatab as
file with device description strings (see example file for syntax).
- -c, --config=configfile
- Use configfile instead of /etc/warnquota.conf as configuration file (see
example file for syntax).
- -a, --admins-file=adminsfile
- Use adminsfile instead
of /etc/quotagrpadmins as a file with administrators of the groups.
- -u, --user
- check whether users are not exceeding quotas (default).
- -g, --group
- check whether
groups are not exceeding quotas. If group is exceeding quota a mail is sent
to the user specified in /etc/quotagrpadmins.
- -s, --human-readable
- Try to report
used space, number of used inodes and limits in more appropriate units
than the default ones.
- -i, --no-autofs
- ignore mountpoints mounted by automounter.
- -d, --no-details
- do not attach quota report in email.
- aquota.user
- quota
file at the filesystem root (version 2 quota, non-XFS filesystems)
- quota.user
- quota file at the filesystem root (version 1 quota, non-XFS filesystems)
- /etc/warnquota.conf
- configuration file
- /etc/quotatab
- device description
- /etc/quotagrpadmins
- administrators of the groups
- /etc/mtab
- default filesystems
- /etc/passwd
- default set of users
quota(1)
, cron(8)
, edquota(8)
.
warnquota(8)
was written by Marco van Wieringen <mvw@planets.elm.net>,
modifications by Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>. This reference page written by Heiko
Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de>, modifications by Jan Kara
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