---
name: "rquotad"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "quota"
version: "4.01-8+deb8u1"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/rquotad"
---

# rquotad(8)

remote quota server

## NAME

rquotad, rpc.rquotad - remote quota server

## SYNOPSIS

**rpc.rquotad** \[ **-sSFI** \] \[ **-p *port*** \]

## DESCRIPTION

**rquotad** is an [**rpc**(3)](/rpc/3.md) server which returns quotas for a user of a local filesystem which is mounted by a remote machine over the NFS. It also allows setting of quotas on NFS mounted filesystem (if configured during compilation and allowed by a command line option **-S**). The results are used by [**quota**(1)](/quota/1.md) to display user quotas for remote filesystems and by [**edquota**(8)](/edquota/8.md) to set quotas on remote filesystems. **rquotad** daemon uses tcp-wrappers library (under service name *rquotad*) which allows you to specify hosts allowed/disallowed to use the daemon (see [**hosts.allow**(5)](/hosts.allow/5.md) manpage for more information). The **rquotad** daemon is normally started at boot time from the system startup scripts.

## OPTIONS

- **-V, --version**

  Shows version of quota tools.

- **-s, --no-setquota**

  Don't allow setting of quotas (default). This option is available only if utilities were compiled with the *rpcsetquota* option.

- **-S, --setquota**

  Allow setting of quotas. This option is available only if utilities were compiled with the *rpcsetquota* option.

- **-F, --foreground**

  Run daemon in foreground (may be useful for debugging purposes).

- **-I, --autofs**

  Do not ignore autofs mountpoints.

- **-p *port*, --port *port***

  Listen on alternate port *port.*

- **-x *path*, --xtab *path***

  Set an alternative file with NFSD export table. This file is used to determine pseudoroot of NFSv4 exports. The pseudoroot is then prepended to each relative path (i.e. a path not beginning by '/') received in a quota RPC request.

## FILES

- **aquota.user or aquota.group**

  quota file at the filesystem root (version 2 quota, non-XFS filesystems)

- **quota.user or quota.group**

  quota file at the filesystem root (version 1 quota, non-XFS filesystems)

- **/etc/mtab**

  default filesystems

## SEE ALSO

[**quota**(1)](/quota/1.md), [**rpc**(3)](/rpc/3.md), [**nfs**(5)](/nfs/5.md), [**services**(5)](/services/5.md), [**inetd**(8)](/inetd/8.md)