System Administration Guide

How to Check for Exceeded Quotas

You can display the quotas and disk use for individual users on file systems on which quotas have been activated by using the quota command.

Become superuser.

Display user quotas for mounted file systems where quotas are enabled.
# quota [-v] username
-v

(Optional) Displays users' quotas on all mounted file systems that have quotas.

username

Is the login name or UID of a user's account.

Example--Checking for Exceeded Quotas

The following example shows that the user account identified by UID 301 has a quota of one Kbyte 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 time (in days) left on the quota timer.

`-v`	(Optional) Displays users' quotas on all mounted file systems that have quotas.
`username`	Is the login name or UID of a user's account.