rquota
provides drop-in replacements for the quota
and repquota
utilities on Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems.
Its configuration file makes it possible to limit the file systems
queried to only those of interest, and to alias them for human readability
in quota output. Block counts are converted to human readable units.
rquota
supports remote NFS and, if configured --with-lustre
,
Lustre file systems. At this time it does not support quotas on
local file systems.
/etc/quota.conf
consists of one line per file system, with #
indicating that the remainder of a line is a comment.
Each line consists of the following fields delimited by colons:
lustre
if the file system type is Lustre.This utility was originally written for California State University, Chico in the mid 1990s, for a network of Sun and HP-UX systems in the Computer Science and Engineering department. It allowed NFS quotas to be displayed compactly at login without delaying the login process waiting for irrelevant mounted file systems to respond to quota requests. CSU, Chico graciously allowed it to be released as open source.