FreeBSD Show Disk Quota Limits Command

To show disk quota limits on a FreeBSD system, you can use the quota command. This command displays the disk usage and limits for a specific user or for all users on the system.

To display the disk usage and limits for a specific user, use the -v option and specify the username:

quota -v username

To display the disk usage and limits for all users, use the -v option with the -a flag:

quota -va

The output of the quota command will show the current disk usage and limits for each filesystem with quotas enabled. For each filesystem, it will display the following information:

• Filesystem: the name of the filesystem
• Blocks: the current number of blocks (units of disk space) used by the user or group
• Limit: the maximum number of blocks the user or group is allowed to use
• Grace: the grace period, in days, before the user or group will be unable to write to the filesystem if they exceed their quota
• Files: the current number of files used by the user or group
• Limit: the maximum number of files the user or group is allowed to create
• Grace: the grace period, in days, before the user or group will be unable to create new files if they exceed their quota

Here is an example of the output you might see when running quota -v username:

/dev/ad0s1g:
                         Blocks       Limit       Grace      Files       Limit       Grace
username            4936       5120       7          3         0          0

This output shows that the user username is currently using 4936 blocks (units of disk space) on the /dev/ad0s1g filesystem, and is allowed a maximum of 5120 blocks. The grace period for both blocks and files is 7 days.

If you want to see more detailed information about the quotas on your system, such as the limits for individual groups or the total number of blocks and files used by all users, you can use the -q option with the quota command. For example:

quota -q

This will show the quotas for all users and groups on the system.

For more information about the quota command and its options, you can refer to the quota man page by running man quota on the command line.