---
name: "quotatab"
section: "5"
platform: "linux"
package: "quota-tools"
version: "1:4.11-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/quotatab"
---

# quotatab(5)

Descriptions of devices with disk quotas

## 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)](/warnquota/8.md) 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/quotatab**

  list of device descriptions

## SEE ALSO

[**warnquota**(8)](/warnquota/8.md).