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QUOTACTL(2)		   Linux Programmer's Manual		   QUOTACTL(2)

NAME
       quotactl - manipulate disk quotas

SYNOPSIS
       #include <sys/quota.h>
       #include <xfs/xqm.h>

       int quotactl(int cmd, const char *special, int id, caddr_t addr);

DESCRIPTION
       The  quota  system  can be used to set per-user and per-group limits on
       the amount of disk space used on a file system.	For each  user	and/or
       group,  a  soft limit and a hard limit can be set for each file system.
       The hard limit can't be exceeded.  The soft limit can be exceeded,  but
       warnings	 will  ensue.	Moreover, the user can't exceed the soft limit
       for more than one week (by default) at a time;  after  this  time,  the
       soft limit counts as a hard limit.

       The  quotactl()	call  manipulates disk quotas.	The cmd argument indi‐
       cates a command to be applied to the user or group ID specified in  id.
       To  initialize the cmd argument, use the QCMD(subcmd, type) macro.  The
       type value is either USRQUOTA, for user quotas, or GRPQUOTA, for	 group
       quotas.	The subcmd value is described below.

       The  special argument is a pointer to a null-terminated string contain‐
       ing the pathname of the (mounted) block special	device	for  the  file
       system being manipulated.

       The addr argument is the address of an optional, command-specific, data
       structure that is copied in or out of the system.   The	interpretation
       of addr is given with each command below.

       The subcmd value is one of the following:

       Q_QUOTAON
	       Turn on quotas for a file system.  The id argument is the iden‐
	       tification number of the quota format to be  used.   Currently,
	       there are three supported quota formats:

	       QFMT_VFS_OLD The original quota format.

	       QFMT_VFS_V0  The standard VFS v0 quota format, which can handle
			    32-bit UIDs and GIDs and quota limits up  to  2^42
			    bytes and 2^32 inodes.

	       QFMT_VFS_V1  A  quota  format  that  can handle 32-bit UIDs and
			    GIDs and quota  limits  of	2^64  bytes  and  2^64
			    inodes.

	       The  addr  argument points to the pathname of a file containing
	       the quotas for the file system.	The quota file must exist;  it
	       is normally created with the quotacheck(8) program.  This oper‐
	       ation requires privilege (CAP_SYS_ADMIN).

       Q_QUOTAOFF
	       Turn off quotas for a file system.  The addr and	 id  arguments
	       are     ignored.	    This    operation	 requires    privilege
	       (CAP_SYS_ADMIN).

       Q_GETQUOTA
	       Get disk quota limits and current usage for user or  group  id.
	       The  addr argument is a pointer to a dqblk structure defined in
	       <sys/quota.h> as follows:

		   /* uint64_t is an unsigned 64-bit integer;
		      uint32_t is an unsigned 32-bit integer */

		   struct dqblk {	   /* Definition since Linux 2.4.22 */
		       uint64_t dqb_bhardlimit;	  /* absolute limit on disk
						     quota blocks alloc */
		       uint64_t dqb_bsoftlimit;	  /* preferred limit on
						     disk quota blocks */
		       uint64_t dqb_curspace;	  /* current quota block
						     count */
		       uint64_t dqb_ihardlimit;	  /* maximum number of
						     allocated inodes */
		       uint64_t dqb_isoftlimit;	  /* preferred inode limit */
		       uint64_t dqb_curinodes;	  /* current number of
						     allocated inodes */
		       uint64_t dqb_btime;	  /* time limit for excessive
						     disk use */
		       uint64_t dqb_itime;	  /* time limit for excessive
						     files */
		       uint32_t dqb_valid;	  /* bit mask of QIF_*
						     constants */
		   };

		   /* Flags in dqb_valid that indicate which fields in
		      dqblk structure are valid. */

		   #define QIF_BLIMITS	 1
		   #define QIF_SPACE	 2
		   #define QIF_ILIMITS	 4
		   #define QIF_INODES	 8
		   #define QIF_BTIME	 16
		   #define QIF_ITIME	 32
		   #define QIF_LIMITS	 (QIF_BLIMITS | QIF_ILIMITS)
		   #define QIF_USAGE	 (QIF_SPACE | QIF_INODES)
		   #define QIF_TIMES	 (QIF_BTIME | QIF_ITIME)
		   #define QIF_ALL	 (QIF_LIMITS | QIF_USAGE | QIF_TIMES)

	       The dqb_valid field is a bit mask that is set to	 indicate  the
	       entries	in the dqblk structure that are valid.	Currently, the
	       kernel fills in all entries of the dqblk	 structure  and	 marks
	       them  as	 valid in the dqb_valid field.	Unprivileged users may
	       retrieve	  only	 their	 own   quotas;	 a   privileged	  user
	       (CAP_SYS_ADMIN) can retrieve the quotas of any user.

       Q_SETQUOTA
	       Set  quota information for user or group id, using the informa‐
	       tion supplied in the dqblk structure pointed to by  addr.   The
	       dqb_valid  field of the dqblk structure indicates which entries
	       in the structure have been set by the caller.   This  operation
	       supersedes  the Q_SETQLIM and Q_SETUSE operations in the previ‐
	       ous  quota  interfaces.	 This  operation  requires   privilege
	       (CAP_SYS_ADMIN).

       Q_GETINFO
	       Get  information	 (like grace times) about quotafile.  The addr
	       argument should be a  pointer  to  a  dqinfo  structure.	  This
	       structure is defined in <sys/quota.h> as follows:

		   /* uint64_t is an unsigned 64-bit integer;
		      uint32_t is an unsigned 32-bit integer */

		   struct dqinfo {	   /* Defined since kernel 2.4.22 */
		       uint64_t dqi_bgrace;    /* Time before block soft limit
						  becomes hard limit */

		       uint64_t dqi_igrace;    /* Time before inode soft limit
						  becomes hard limit */
		       uint32_t dqi_flags;     /* Flags for quotafile
						  (DQF_*) */
		       uint32_t dqi_valid;
		   };

		   /* Bits for dqi_flags */

		   /* Quota format QFMT_VFS_OLD */

		   #define V1_DQF_RSQUASH   1	/* Root squash enabled */

		   /* Other quota formats have no dqi_flags bits defined */

		   /* Flags in dqi_valid that indicate which fields in
		      dqinfo structure are valid. */

		   # define IIF_BGRACE 1
		   # define IIF_IGRACE 2
		   # define IIF_FLAGS  4
		   # define IIF_ALL    (IIF_BGRACE | IIF_IGRACE | IIF_FLAGS)

	       The  dqi_valid  field  in  the  dqinfo  structure indicates the
	       entries in the structure that are valid.	 Currently, the kernel
	       fills in all entries of the dqinfo structure and marks them all
	       as valid in the dqi_valid field.	 The id argument is ignored.

       Q_SETINFO
	       Set information about quotafile.	 The addr argument should be a
	       pointer	to  a  dqinfo  structure.   The dqi_valid field of the
	       dqinfo structure indicates the entries in  the  structure  that
	       have  been  set	by  the caller.	 This operation supersedes the
	       Q_SETGRACE and Q_SETFLAGS  operations  in  the  previous	 quota
	       interfaces.   The  id  argument	is  ignored.   This  operation
	       requires privilege (CAP_SYS_ADMIN).

       Q_GETFMT
	       Get quota format used on the specified file system.   The  addr
	       argument	 should be a pointer to a 4-byte buffer where the for‐
	       mat number will be stored.

       Q_SYNC  Update the on-disk copy of quota usages for a file system.   If
	       special	is  NULL, then all file systems with active quotas are
	       sync'ed.	 The addr and id arguments are ignored.

       Q_GETSTATS
	       Get statistics and other generic information  about  the	 quota
	       subsystem.   The addr argument should be a pointer to a dqstats
	       structure in which data should be stored.   This	 structure  is
	       defined	in  <sys/quota.h>.   The  special and id arguments are
	       ignored.	 This operation	 is  obsolete  and  not	 supported  by
	       recent  kernels.	 Files in /proc/sys/fs/quota/ carry the infor‐
	       mation instead.

       For XFS file systems making use of the XFS  Quota  Manager  (XQM),  the
       above commands are bypassed and the following commands are used:

       Q_XQUOTAON
	       Turn  on quotas for an XFS file system.	XFS provides the abil‐
	       ity to turn on/off quota limit enforcement with quota  account‐
	       ing.   Therefore,  XFS  expects	addr  to  be  a	 pointer to an
	       unsigned int that contains either the flags  XFS_QUOTA_UDQ_ACCT
	       and/or	  XFS_QUOTA_UDQ_ENFD	 (for	 user	 quota),    or
	       XFS_QUOTA_GDQ_ACCT and/or XFS_QUOTA_GDQ_ENFD (for group quota),
	       as  defined  in <xfs/xqm.h>.  This operation requires privilege
	       (CAP_SYS_ADMIN).

       Q_XQUOTAOFF
	       Turn off quotas for an XFS file system.	As with Q_QUOTAON, XFS
	       file systems expect a pointer to an unsigned int that specifies
	       whether quota accounting and/or limit enforcement  need	to  be
	       turned off.  This operation requires privilege (CAP_SYS_ADMIN).

       Q_XGETQUOTA
	       Get  disk quota limits and current usage for user id.  The addr
	       argument is a pointer to an fs_disk_quota structure (defined in
	       <xfs/xqm.h>).   Unprivileged  users may retrieve only their own
	       quotas; a privileged user (CAP_SYS_ADMIN) may retrieve the quo‐
	       tas of any user.

       Q_XSETQLIM
	       Set  disk  quota	 limits	 for  user id.	The addr argument is a
	       pointer to an fs_disk_quota structure (defined in <xfs/xqm.h>).
	       This operation requires privilege (CAP_SYS_ADMIN).

       Q_XGETQSTAT
	       Returns	an  fs_quota_stat structure containing XFS file system
	       specific quota information.  This is useful for finding out how
	       much  space is used to store quota information, and also to get
	       quotaon/off status of a given local XFS file system.

       Q_XQUOTARM
	       Free the disk space taken by disk  quotas.   Quotas  must  have
	       already been turned off.

       There  is  no command equivalent to Q_SYNC for XFS since sync(1) writes
       quota information to disk (in addition to the other file	 system	 meta‐
       data that it writes out).

RETURN VALUES
       On success, quotactl() returns 0; on error -1 is returned, and errno is
       set to indicate the error.

ERRORS
       EFAULT addr or special is invalid.

       EINVAL cmd or type is invalid.

       ENOENT The file specified by special or addr does not exist.

       ENOSYS The kernel has not been compiled with the CONFIG_QUOTA option.

       ENOTBLK
	      special is not a block device.

       EPERM  The caller lacked the required privilege (CAP_SYS_ADMIN) for the
	      specified operation.

       ESRCH  No  disk quota is found for the indicated user.  Quotas have not
	      been turned on for this file system.

       If cmd is Q_SETQUOTA, quotactl() may also set errno to:

       ERANGE Specified limits are out of range allowed by quota format.

       If cmd is Q_QUOTAON, quotactl() may also set errno to:

       EACCES The quota file pointed to by addr exists, but is not  a  regular
	      file;  or,  the quota file pointed to by addr exists, but is not
	      on the file system pointed to by special.

       EBUSY  Q_QUOTAON attempted, but another Q_QUOTAON had already been per‐
	      formed.

       EINVAL The quota file is corrupted.

       ESRCH  Specified quota format was not found.

SEE ALSO
       quota(1), getrlimit(2), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8)

COLOPHON
       This  page  is  part of release 3.27 of the Linux man-pages project.  A
       description of the project, and information about reporting  bugs,  can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

Linux				  2010-06-16			   QUOTACTL(2)
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