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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 filesystem.  For each user and/or group, a soft limit and a hard limit can
       be  set  for  each  filesystem.   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 indicates 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 containing the pathname of
       the (mounted) block special device for the filesystem 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 filesystem.  The id argument is the identification 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
               filesystem.   The  quota  file  must  exist;  it  is  normally  created  with  the
               quotacheck(8) program.  This operation requires privilege (CAP_SYS_ADMIN).

       Q_QUOTAOFF
               Turn  off  quotas  for a filesystem.  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 information 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  previous  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 filesystem.  The addr argument should be a
               pointer to a 4-byte buffer where the format number will be stored.

       Q_SYNC  Update the on-disk copy of quota usages for a filesystem.   If  special  is  NULL,
               then  all  filesystems  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 information instead.

       For XFS filesystems 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 filesystem.  XFS provides the ability to turn on/off
               quota limit enforcement with quota accounting.  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 filesystem.  As with Q_QUOTAON, XFS filesystems  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 quotas 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  filesystem  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 filesystem.

       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 filesystem metadata that it writes out).

RETURN VALUE

       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 filesystem.

       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 filesystem pointed to by special.

       EBUSY  Q_QUOTAON attempted, but another Q_QUOTAON had already been performed.

       EINVAL The quota file is corrupted.

       ESRCH  Specified quota format was not found.

SEE ALSO

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

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