warnquota - send mail to users over quota
warnquota [ -ugsid ] [ -F quotaformat
] [ -q quotatab ] [ -c configfile ] [ -a
adminsfile ] [ filesystem... ]
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.
- 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
warnquota(8) was written by Marco van Wieringen
<mvw@planets.elm.net>, modifications by Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>.
This reference page written by Heiko Schlittermann
<heiko@lotte.sax.de>, modifications by Jan Kara