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1.1       root        1: .TH QUOTAON 8  "28 June 1983"
                      2: .UC 4
                      3: .SH NAME
                      4: quotaon, quotaoff \- turn file system quotas on and off
                      5: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      6: .B /etc/quotaon
                      7: [
                      8: .B \-v
                      9: ]
                     10: .I filsys...
                     11: .PP
                     12: .B /etc/quotaon
                     13: [
                     14: .B \-v
                     15: ]
                     16: .B \-a
                     17: .PP
                     18: .B /etc/quotaoff
                     19: [
                     20: .B \-v
                     21: ]
                     22: .I filsys...
                     23: .PP
                     24: .B /etc/quotaoff
                     25: [
                     26: .B \-v
                     27: ]
                     28: .B \-a
                     29: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     30: .I Quotaon
                     31: announces to the system that disc quotas should be enabled
                     32: on one or more file systems.
                     33: The file systems specified must have entries
                     34: in /etc/fstab and be mounted at the time.
                     35: The file system quota files must be present in the root
                     36: directory of the specified file system and be named
                     37: .IR quotas .
                     38: The optional argument
                     39: .B \-v
                     40: causes
                     41: .I quotaon
                     42: to print a message for each file system where quotas are turned on.
                     43: If, instead of a list of file systems, a
                     44: .B \-a
                     45: argument is give to 
                     46: .IR quotaon ,
                     47: all file systems in /etc/fstab marked read-write with quotas
                     48: will have their quotas turned on.  This is normally used at
                     49: boot time to enable quotas.
                     50: .PP
                     51: .I Quotaoff
                     52: announces to the system that file systems specified should
                     53: have any disc quotas turned off.  As above, the
                     54: .B \-v
                     55: forces a verbose message for each file system affected; and
                     56: the 
                     57: .B \-a
                     58: option forces all file systems in /etc/fstab to have their
                     59: quotas disabled.
                     60: .PP
                     61: These commands
                     62: update the status field of devices located in
                     63: .I /etc/mtab
                     64: to indicate when quotas are on or off for each file system.
                     65: .SH FILES
                     66: /etc/mtab      mount table
                     67: .br
                     68: /etc/fstab     file system table
                     69: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     70: setquota(2),
                     71: mtab(5), fstab(5)

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