---
name: "quota"
section: "1"
platform: "openbsd"
package: "man"
version: "8.0-current-20261101"
release: "OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01)"
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** \[**-q** \| **-v**\] \[**-gu**\]

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

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

## DESCRIPTION

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

The options are as follows:

- **-g**

  Print group quotas for the group of which the user is a member.

- **-q**

  Print a more terse message, containing only information on filesystems where usage is over quota. This flag takes precedence over the **-v** flag.

- **-u**

  Print user quotas for the user. This flag is equivalent to the default.

- **-v**

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

Only the superuser may use the **-g** and **-u** flags to view the limits of other groups and users. Non-superusers can use the **-g** and **-u** flags to view the limits of groups of which they are members as well as their own user limits.

**quota** tries to report the quotas of all mounted filesystems. If the filesystem is mounted via NFS, it will attempt to contact the [rpc.rquotad(8)](/rpc.rquotad/8.md) daemon on the NFS server. For FFS filesystems, quotas must be turned on in */etc/fstab*.

## FILES

- *quota.user*

  located at the filesystem root with user quotas

- *quota.group*

  located at the filesystem root with group quotas

- */etc/fstab*

  to find filesystem names and locations

## EXIT STATUS

The **quota** utility exits 0 on success, and with a non-zero value if one or more filesystems are over quota.

## SEE ALSO

[quotactl(2)](/quotactl/2.md), [fstab(5)](/fstab/5.md), [edquota(8)](/edquota/8.md), [quotacheck(8)](/quotacheck/8.md), [quotaon(8)](/quotaon/8.md), [repquota(8)](/repquota/8.md), [rpc.rquotad(8)](/rpc.rquotad/8.md)

## HISTORY

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