Linux/command/quota

quota is a Linux command for managing user disk-quotas, i.e. the amount of disk space each user is allowed to use. It can prevent files from being written to if doing so would exceed the disk quota.

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• quota manpage

Examples

bash-2.05$ quota -g
Disk quotas for group wikigrp (gid 524):
     Filesystem  blocks   quota   limit   grace   files   quota   limit   grace
      /dev/hda6   50000*  50000   50000    none      53       0       0
Disk quotas for group hypertwinsgrp (gid 508): none
Disk quotas for group vbzgrp (gid 523): none
bash-2.05$