System information

An alternative way to safely run q uo tacheck is to boot the system into single-user mode to
prevent the possibility of data corruption in quota files and run the following commands:
# q uo tao ff -vaug /file_system
# q uo tacheck -vaug /file_system
# q uo tao n -vaug /file_system
Ru n n in g q u ot ach eck on a ru n n in g syst em
If necessary, it is possible to run q uo tacheck on a machine during a time when no users
are logged in, and thus have no open files on the file system being checked. Run the
command q uo tacheck -vaug file_system ; this command will fail if q uo tacheck
cannot remount the given file_system as read-only. Note that, following the check, the file
system will be remounted read-write.
Warning
Running q uo tacheck on a live file system mounted read-write is not recommended
due to the possibility of quota file corruption.
Refer to man cro n for more information about configuring cro n.
16.3. Disk Quot a References
For more information on disk quotas, refer to the man pages of the following commands:
q uo tacheck
ed q uo ta
repq uo ta
q uo ta
q uo tao n
q uo tao ff
⁠Chapt er 1 6 . Disk Q uot as
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