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quotacheck — Scan a filesystem for disk usage; create, check, and repair quota files. It is best to run quota che

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Problem

How to use the quotacheck command: Scan a filesystem for disk usage; create, check, and repair quota files. It is best to run quota check with quotas turned off to prevent damage or loss to quota files. More information: <https://manned.org/quotacheck>.

Solution

quotacheck — Scan a filesystem for disk usage; create, check, and repair quota files. It is best to run quota check with quotas turned off to prevent damage or loss to quota files. More information: <https://manned.org/quotacheck>.

Check quotas on all mounted non-NFS filesystems:

sudo quotacheck --all

Force check even if quotas are enabled (this can cause damage or loss to quota files):

sudo quotacheck --force {{mountpoint}}

Check quotas on a given filesystem in debug mode:

sudo quotacheck --debug {{mountpoint}}

Check quotas on a given filesystem, displaying the progress:

sudo quotacheck --verbose {{mountpoint}}

Check user quotas:

sudo quotacheck --user {{user}} {{mountpoint}}

Check group quotas:

sudo quotacheck --group {{group}} {{mountpoint}}

Code Snippets

Check quotas on all mounted non-NFS filesystems

sudo quotacheck --all

Force check even if quotas are enabled (this can cause damage or loss to quota files)

sudo quotacheck --force {{mountpoint}}

Check quotas on a given filesystem in debug mode

sudo quotacheck --debug {{mountpoint}}

Check quotas on a given filesystem, displaying the progress

sudo quotacheck --verbose {{mountpoint}}

Check user quotas

sudo quotacheck --user {{user}} {{mountpoint}}

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