---
name: "quota"
section: "1"
platform: "macos"
package: "diskdev_cmds"
version: "757"
release: "macOS 26.5"
platforms: ["linux", "freebsd", "openbsd", "macos"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/quota"
---

# quota(1)

display disk usage and limits

## NAME

**quota** – display disk usage and limits

## SYNOPSIS

**quota** \[**-g**\] \[**-u**\] \[**-v** \| **-q**\]

**quota** \[**-u**\] \[**-v** \| **-q**\] *user*

**quota** \[**-g**\] \[**-v** \| **-q**\] *group*

## DESCRIPTION

**Quota** displays users' disk usage and limits. By default only the user quotas are printed.

Options:

- **-g**

  Print group quotas for the group  of which the user is a member. The optional **-u** flag is equivalent to the default.

- **-v**

  **quota** will display quotas on filesystems where no storage is allocated.

- **-q**

  Print a more terse message, containing only information on filesystems where usage is over quota.

Specifying both **-g** and **-u** displays both the user quotas and the group quotas (for the user).

Only the super-user may use the **-u** flag and the optional *user* argument to view the limits of other users. Non-super-users can use the **-g** flag and optional *group* argument to view only the limits of groups of which they are members.

The **-q** flag takes precedence over the **-v** flag.

**Quota** reports the quotas of all the filesystems that have a mount option file located at its root. If **quota** exits with a non-zero status, then one or more filesystems are over quota.

## FILES

Each of the following quota files is located at the root of the mounted filesystem.  The mount option files are empty files whose existence indicates that quotas are to be enabled for that filesystem.

- *.quota.user*

  data file containing user quotas

- *.quota.group*

  data file containing group quotas

- *.quota.ops.user*

  mount option file used to enable user quotas

- *.quota.ops.group*

  mount option file used to enable group quotas

## HISTORY

The **quota** command appeared in 4.2BSD.

## SEE ALSO

[quotactl(2)](/quotactl/2.md), [edquota(8)](/edquota/8.md), [quotacheck(8)](/quotacheck/8.md), [quotaon(8)](/quotaon/8.md), [repquota(8)](/repquota/8.md)