quotatab(5)

quotatab5

Descriptions of devices with disk quotas

Usage

/etc/quotatab

Overview

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.

Examples

# comment

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

Files

/etc/quotatab

list of device descriptions

Releases

Unchanged in 6 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch).

  1. 9–Arch

From quota-tools 1:4.11-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.