System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

Example—Checking for Exceeded Quotas

The following example shows that the user account identified by UID 301 has one 1–Kbyte quota but has not used any disk space.


# quota -v 301
Disk quotas for bob (uid 301):
Filesystem  usage  quota limit timeleft files quota  limit timeleft
/export/home   0      1     2             0      2      3

Filesystem

Is the mount point for the file system. 

usage

Is the current block usage. 

quota

Is the soft block limit. 

limit

Is the hard block limit. 

timeleft

Is the amount of time (in days) left on the quota timer. 

files

Is the current inode usage. 

quota

Is the soft inode limit. 

limit

Is the hard inode limit. 

timeleft

Is the amount of time (in days) left on the quota timer.