quota displays users' disk usage and limits. By default only the user quotas are printed.
Options:
-g
Print group quotas for the group of which the user is a member. The optional -u flag is equivalent to the default.
-v
quota will display quotas on filesystems where no storage is allocated.
-q
Print a more terse message, containing only information on filesystems where usage is over quota.
Specifying both
-g and
-u displays both the user quotas and the group quotas (for the user).
Only the super-user may use the
-u flag and the optional
user argument to view the limits of other users. Non-super-users can use the
-g flag and optional
group argument to view only the limits of groups of which they are members.
The
-q flag takes precedence over the
-v flag.
quota tries to report the quotas of all mounted filesystems. If the filesystem is mounted via
NFS it will attempt to contact the
rpc.rquotad(8) daemon on the
NFS server. For
FFS filesystems, quotas must be turned on in
/etc/fstab. If
quota exits with a non-zero status, one or more filesystems are over quota.