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.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1990, 1991 Regents of the University of California.
.\" All rights reserved.
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.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
.\" Robert Elz at The University of Melbourne.
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.\" %sccs.include.redist.man%
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.\"     @(#)quotacheck.8	6.7 (Berkeley) %G%
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.Dd 
.Dt QUOTACHECK 8
.Os BSD 4.2
.Sh NAME
.Nm quotacheck
.Nd filesystem quota consistency checker
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm quotacheck
.Op Fl g
.Op Fl u
.Op Fl v
.Ar filesystem Ar ...
.Nm quotacheck
.Op Fl g
.Op Fl u
.Op Fl v
.Fl a
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm Quotacheck
examines each filesystem,
builds a table of current disk usage,
and compares this table against that recorded
in the disk quota file for the filesystem.
If any inconsistencies are detected, both the
quota file and the current system copy of the
incorrect quotas are updated (the latter only
occurs if an active filesystem is checked).
By default both user and group quotas are checked.
.Pp
Available options:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl a
If the
.Fl a
flag is supplied in place of any filesystem names,
.Nm quotacheck
will check all the filesystems indicated in
.Pa /etc/fstab
to be read-write with disk quotas.
By default only the types of quotas listed in
.Pa /etc/fstab
are checked.
.It Fl g
Only group quotas listed in
.Pa /etc/fstab
are to be checked.
.It Fl u
Only user quotas listed in
.Pa /etc/fstab
are to be checked.
.It Fl v
.Nm quotacheck
reports discrepancies between the
calculated and recorded disk quotas.
.El
.Pp
Specifying both
.Fl g
and
.Fl u
is equivalent to the default.
Parallel passes are run on the filesystems required,
using the pass numbers in
.Pa /etc/fstab
in an identical fashion to
.Xr fsck 8 .
.Pp
Normally
.Nm quotacheck
operates silently.
.Pp
.Nm Quotacheck
expects each filesystem to be checked to have a
quota files named
.Pa quota.user
and
.Pa quota.group
which are located at the root of the associated file system.
These defaults may be overridden in
.Pa /etc/fstab .
If a file is not present, 
.Nm quotacheck
will create it.
.Pp
.Nm Quotacheck
is normally run at boot time from the
.Pa /etc/rc.local
file, see
.Xr rc 8 ,
before enabling disk quotas with
.Xr quotaon 8 .
.Pp
.Nm Quotacheck
accesses the raw device in calculating the actual
disk usage for each user.
Thus, the filesystems
checked should be quiescent while
.Nm quotacheck
is running.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width quota.group -compact
.It Pa quota.user
at the filesystem root with user quotas
.It Pa quota.group
at the filesystem root with group quotas
.It Pa /etc/fstab
default filesystems
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr quota 1 ,
.Xr quotactl 2 ,
.Xr fstab 5 ,
.Xr edquota 8 ,
.Xr fsck 8 ,
.Xr quotaon 8 ,
.Xr repquota 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
command appeared in
.Bx 4.2 .