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NAME

     quotactl - manipulate file system quotas

LIBRARY

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

     #include <sys/types.h>
     #include <ufs/ufs/quota.h>

     int
     quotactl(const char *path, int cmd, int id, void *addr);

DESCRIPTION

     The quotactl() system call enables, disables and manipulates file system
     quotas.  A quota control command given by cmd operates on the given
     filename path for the given user or group id.  (NOTE: One should use the
     QCMD macro defined in #include <ufs/ufs/quota.h>
     to formulate the value for cmd.)  The address of an optional command
     specific data structure, addr, may be given; its interpretation is
     discussed below with each command.

     For commands that use the id identifier, it must be either -1 or any
     positive value.  The value of -1 indicates that the current UID or GID
     should be used.  Any other negative value will return an error.

     Currently quotas are supported only for the “ufs” file system.  For
     “ufs”, a command is composed of a primary command (see below) and a
     command type used to interpret the id.  Types are supported for
     interpretation of user identifiers (USRQUOTA) and group identifiers
     (GRPQUOTA).  The “ufs” specific commands are:

     Q_QUOTAON     Enable disk quotas for the file system specified by path.
                   The command type specifies the type of the quotas being
                   enabled.  The addr argument specifies a file from which to
                   take the quotas.  The quota file must exist; it is normally
                   created with the quotacheck(8) program.  The id argument is
                   unused.  Only the super-user may turn quotas on.

     Q_QUOTAOFF    Disable disk quotas for the file system specified by path.
                   The command type specifies the type of the quotas being
                   disabled.  The addr and id arguments are unused.  Only the
                   super-user may turn quotas off.

     Q_GETQUOTA    Get disk quota limits and current usage for the user or
                   group (as determined by the command type) with identifier
                   id.  The addr argument is a pointer to a struct dqblk
                   structure (defined in

     Q_SETQUOTA    Set disk quota limits for the user or group (as determined
                   by the command type) with identifier id.  The addr argument
                   is a pointer to a struct dqblk structure (defined in The
                   usage fields of the dqblk structure are ignored.  This
                   system call is restricted to the super-user.

     Q_SETUSE      Set disk usage limits for the user or group (as determined
                   by the command type) with identifier id.  The addr argument
                   is a pointer to a struct dqblk structure (defined in Only
                   the usage fields are used.  This system call is restricted
                   to the super-user.

     Q_SYNC        Update the on-disk copy of quota usages.  The command type
                   specifies which type of quotas are to be updated.  The id
                   and addr arguments are ignored.

RETURN VALUES

     The quotactl() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the
     value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the
     error.

ERRORS

     The quotactl() system call will fail if:

     [EOPNOTSUPP]       The kernel has not been compiled with the QUOTA
                        option.

     [EUSERS]           The quota table cannot be expanded.

     [EINVAL]           The cmd argument or the command type is invalid.  In
                        Q_GETQUOTA and Q_SETQUOTA, quotas are not currently
                        enabled for this file system.

                        The id argument to Q_GETQUOTA, Q_SETQUOTA or Q_SETUSE
                        is a negative value.

     [EACCES]           In Q_QUOTAON, the quota file is not a plain file.

     [EACCES]           Search permission is denied for a component of a path
                        prefix.

     [ENOTDIR]          A component of a path prefix was not a directory.

     [ENAMETOOLONG]     A component of either pathname exceeded 255
                        characters, or the entire length of either path name
                        exceeded 1023 characters.

     [ENOENT]           A filename does not exist.

     [ELOOP]            Too many symbolic links were encountered in
                        translating a pathname.

     [EROFS]            In Q_QUOTAON, the quota file resides on a read-only
                        file system.

     [EIO]              An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to
                        a file containing quotas.

     [EFAULT]           An invalid addr was supplied; the associated structure
                        could not be copied in or out of the kernel.

     [EFAULT]           The path argument points outside the process’s
                        allocated address space.

     [EPERM]            The call was privileged and the caller was not the
                        super-user.

SEE ALSO

     quota(1), fstab(5), edquota(8), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8), repquota(8)

HISTORY

     The quotactl() system call appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno.

BUGS

     There should be some way to integrate this call with the resource limit
     interface provided by setrlimit(2) and getrlimit(2).