warnquota (8) Linux Manual Page

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

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.

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 [at] planets.elm.net>, modifications by Jan Kara <jack [at] suse.cz>. This reference page written by Heiko Schlittermann <heiko [at] lotte.sax.de>, modifications by Jan Kara