WARNQUOTA
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NAME
warnquota - send mail to users over quota
SYNOPSIS
warnquota
[
-ugsid
] [
-F
quotaformat
] [
-q
quotatab
] [
-c
configfile
] [
-a
adminsfile
] [
filesystem...
]
DESCRIPTION
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
quotatab(5)
for syntax).
- -c, --config=configfile
-
Use
configfile
instead of
/etc/warnquota.conf
as configuration file (see
warnquota.conf(5)
for syntax).
- -a, --admins-file=adminsfile
-
Use
adminsfile
instead of
/etc/quotagrpadmins
as a file with administrators of the groups (see
quotagrpadmins(5)
for syntax).
- -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[=units]
-
Try to report used space, number of used inodes and limits in more appropriate
units than the default ones. Units can be also specified explicitely by an
optional argument in format [
kgt
],[
kgt
] where the first character specifies space units and the second character
specifies inode units.
- -i, --no-autofs
-
ignore mountpoints mounted by automounter.
- -d, --no-details
-
do not attach quota report in email.
FILES
- 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
SEE ALSO
quota(1),
quotatab(5),
quotagrpadmins(5),
warnquota.conf(5),
cron(8),
edquota(8).
AUTHORS
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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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- FILES
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- SEE ALSO
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- AUTHORS
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