WARNQUOTA   (8) manpage
WARNQUOTA
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  • NAME
      warnquota - send mail to users over quota
  • SYNOPSIS
      warnquota [ -ugsid ] [ -F quotaformat ] [ -q quotatab ] [ -c configfile ] [ -a adminsfile ]
  • DESCRIPTION
      warnquota checks the disk quota for each filesystem and mails a warning message to those users who have reached their softlimit. It is typically run via cron(8) .
      -F <2>quotaformat<1>
      Perform setting for specified format (ie. don't perform format autodetection). Possible format names are: vfsold (version 1 quota), vfsv0 (version 2 quota), rpc (quota over NFS), xfs (quota on XFS filesystem)
      -q <2>quotatab<1>
      Use quotatab instead of /etc/quotatab as file with device description strings (see example file for syntax).
      -c <2>configfile<1>
      Use configfile instead of /etc/warnquota.conf as configuration file (see example file for syntax).
      -a <2>adminsfile<1>
      Use adminsfile instead of /etc/quotagrpadmins as a file with administrators of the groups.
      -u
      check whether users are not exceeding quotas (default).
      -g
      check whether groups are not exceeding quotas. If group is exceeding quota a mail is sent to the user specified in /etc/quotagrpadmins.
      -s
      Try to report used space, number of used inodes and limits in more appropriate units than the default ones.
      -i
      ignore mountpoints mounted by automounter.
      -d
      don't 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
  • 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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