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[=units]
- Try to report used space, number of used inodes and limits in more
appropriate units than the default ones. Units can be also specified
explicitely by an optional argument in format [ kgt ],[ kgt
] where the first character specifies space units and the second character
specifies inode units.
- -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