Section 5 · File formats

quotatab.5

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QUOTATAB

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
EXAMPLE
FILES
SEE ALSO

NAME

quotatab − Descriptions of devices with disk quotas

SYNOPSIS

/etc/quotatab

DESCRIPTION

The quotatab file lists human descriptions of devices for the purpose of warnquota(8) notifications.

Each line consists of a device path name followed by a colon and a description. White space, apostrophe, and double quote characters surrounding the names and descriptions will be stripped. The description field can encode a new-line as a pipe character.

Empty lines or lines starting with a hash sign or a semicolon are ignored.

EXAMPLE

comment

/dev/sda2: Home directories.|This becomes the second line.

FILES

/etc/quotatablist of device descriptions

SEE ALSO

warnquota(8).