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1.1       root        1: .TH SETQUOTA 2 "7 July 1983"
                      2: .UC 4
                      3: .SH NAME
                      4: setquota \- enable/disable quotas on a file system
                      5: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      6: .nf
                      7: .B setquota(special, file)
                      8: .B char *special, *file;
                      9: .fi
                     10: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     11: Disc quotas are enabled or disabled with the
                     12: .I setquota
                     13: call.
                     14: .I Special
                     15: indicates a block special device on which a
                     16: mounted file system exists.
                     17: If
                     18: .I file
                     19: is nonzero, it specifies a file in that
                     20: file system from which to take the quotas.  If
                     21: .I file
                     22: is 0, then quotas are disabled on the file system.
                     23: The quota file must exist; it is normally created
                     24: with the 
                     25: .IR checkquota (8)
                     26: program.
                     27: .PP
                     28: Only the super-user may turn quotas on or off.
                     29: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     30: quota(2), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8)
                     31: .SH "RETURN VALUE"
                     32: A 0 return value indicates a successful call.  A value
                     33: of \-1 is returned when an error occurs and 
                     34: .I errno
                     35: is set to indicate the reason for failure.
                     36: .SH ERRORS
                     37: .I Setquota
                     38: will fail when one of the following occurs:
                     39: .TP 15
                     40: [NODEV]
                     41: The caller is not the super-user.
                     42: .TP 15
                     43: [NODEV]
                     44: .I Special
                     45: does not exist.
                     46: .TP 15
                     47: [ENOTBLK]
                     48: .I Special
                     49: is not a block device.
                     50: .TP 15
                     51: [ENXIO]
                     52: The major device number of 
                     53: .I special
                     54: is out of range (this indicates no device driver exists
                     55: for the associated hardware).
                     56: .TP 15
                     57: [EPERM]
                     58: The pathname contains a character with the high-order bit set.
                     59: .TP 15
                     60: [ENOTDIR]
                     61: A component of the path prefix in
                     62: .I file
                     63: is not a directory.
                     64: .TP 15
                     65: [EROFS]
                     66: .I File
                     67: resides on a read-only file system.
                     68: .TP 15
                     69: [EACCES]
                     70: .I File
                     71: resides on a file system different from
                     72: .IR special .
                     73: .TP 15
                     74: [EACCES]
                     75: .I File
                     76: is not a plain file.
                     77: .SH BUGS
                     78: The error codes are in a state of disarray; too many errors
                     79: appear to the caller as one value.

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