NAME

quotacheck - file system quota consistency checker

SYNOPSIS

quotacheck [-v] [-p] filesystem...
quotacheck [-apv]

DESCRIPTION

quotacheck examines each file system, builds a table of current disk usage, and compares this table against that stored in the disk quota file for the file system. 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 file system is checked).

quotacheck expects each file system to be checked to have a quota file named quotas in the root directory. If none is present, quotacheck will ignore the file system.

quotacheck accesses the character special device in calculating the actual disk usage for each user. Thus, the file systems checked should be quiescent while quotacheck is running. The options are:

-v Indicate the calculated disk quotas for each user on a particular file system. quotacheck normally reports only those quotas modified.

-a Check the file systems indicated in /etc/mnttab to be read-write with disk quotas. Only those file systems that have "rq" in the mntopts field of the /etc/vfstab file are checked.

-p Run parallel passes on the required file systems.

FILES

/etc/mnttab         mounted file systems
/etc/vfstab         list of default parameters for each file
                    system

SEE ALSO

quotaon(1M), quotactl(2).