QUOT(8)

💅 QUOT(8) — quot: display disk space occupied by each user 💅

okay bestie, gather round 🫶 this is the manual page for quot, and it's lowkey iconic if you wanna see how much disk space every user is eating. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

quot — display disk space occupied by each user 💾

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

quot [-cfknv] [-a | filesystem ...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

The quot utility is used to gather per-user disk usage statistics from ffs(7) file systems.

Here's the whole option menu, bestie — no skipping, periodt:

• -a — include statistics for all mounted file systems. 🌈
• -c — display three columns containing the number of blocks per file, the number of files in this category, and the aggregate total of blocks in files with this or lower size. 🧮 This option is mutually exclusive with the -n option, so do not mix those vibes.
• -f — for each user, display count of files and space occupied. 🍓 This option has no effect if combined with the -c or -n options.
• -k — force the numbers to be reported in kilobyte counts. 🔢 By default, all sizes are reported in 512-byte block counts.
• -n — given a list of inodes (plus some optional data on each line) in the standard input, for each file print out the owner (plus the remainder of the input line). 👑 Lines that do not begin with a number are ignored. This option is mutually exclusive with the -c option.

This is traditionally used in the pipe:

ls -i | sed -e 's,^  *,,' | sort -k 1n | quot -n filesystem

to get a report of files and their owners.

• -v — in addition to the default output, display the number of files not accessed within 30, 60 and 90 days. 🕰️ This option has no effect if combined with the -c or -n options.

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

• BLOCKSIZE — if the environment variable BLOCKSIZE is set, and the -k option is not specified, the block counts will be displayed in units of that size block. 📏

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

df(1), quota(1), getmntinfo(3), fstab(5), ffs(7), mount(8) — go read these too, iykyk. 💅

👑 HISTORY 👑

This implementation of quot is by Wolfgang Solfrank / TooLs GmbH. 🛠️

💀 BUGS 💀

Real talk: ncheck (which would be a lot more useful than ls -i in the example above) does not exist in FreeBSD. 😭

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mwah 💋 this page is the Debian version, dated November 13, 2025, and it's the QUOT(8) manual. periodt. 🫶