| QUOTACHECK(8) | System Manager's Manual | QUOTACHECK(8) | 
quotacheck —
| quotacheck | [ -gquv] filesystem
      ... | 
| quotacheck | [ -gquv] [-lmaxparallel]-a | 
quotacheck examines each filesystem, builds a table of
  current disk usage, and compares this table against that recorded in the disk
  quota file for the filesystem. If any inconsistencies are detected, both the
  quota file and the current system copy of the incorrect quotas are updated
  (the latter only occurs if an active filesystem is checked). By default both
  user and group quotas are checked.
Available options:
-a-a flag is supplied in place of any
      filesystem names, quotacheck will check all the
      filesystems indicated in /etc/fstab to be
      read-write with disk quotas. By default only the types of quotas listed in
      /etc/fstab are checked. See also
      -l.-g-u.-l
    maxparallel-a.-qquotacheck runs more quickly, particularly on
      systems with sparse user id usage, but fails to correct quotas for users
      [groups] not in the system user [group] database, and owning no files on
      the filesystem, if the quota file incorrectly believes that they do.-u-g.-vquotacheck is more verbose, and reports corrected
      discrepancies between the calculated and recorded disk quotas.Specifying both -g and
    -u is equivalent to the default. Parallel passes are
    run on the filesystems required, using the pass numbers in
    /etc/fstab in an identical fashion to
    fsck(8).
Normally quotacheck operates silently.
quotacheck expects each filesystem to be
    checked to have a quota files named quota.user and
    quota.group which are located at the root of the
    associated file system. These defaults may be overridden in
    /etc/fstab. If a file is not present,
    quotacheck will create it.
quotacheck is normally run at boot time
    from the /etc/rc file, see
    rc(8), before enabling disk quotas
    with quotaon(8).
quotacheck accesses the raw device in
    calculating the actual disk usage for each user. Thus, the filesystems
    checked should be quiescent while quotacheck is
    running.
If quotacheck receives a
    SIGINFO signal (see the status
    argument for stty(1)), a line
    will be written to the standard error output indicating the name of the
    device currently being checked and progress information.
quotacheck command appeared in
  4.2BSD.
| January 5, 2004 | NetBSD 10.1 |