How To Install Quotacheck?

quotacheck

Scan a filesystem for disk usage; create, check and repair quota files.
It is best to run quota check with quotas turned off to prevent damage or loss to quota files.

Maintainer: Michael Meskes

Email: [email protected] .

Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxquota

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Install quotacheck

Debian apt-get install quota Click to copy
Ubuntu apt-get install quota Click to copy
Arch Linux pacman -S quota-tools Click to copy
Kali Linux apt-get install quota Click to copy
Fedora dnf install quota-1 Click to copy
Raspbian apt-get install quota Click to copy

Scan a filesystem for disk usage; create, check and repair quota files. It is best to run quota check with quotas turned off to prevent damage or loss to quota files.

How to use quotacheck?

Below are few example commands for quotacheck that you can use in the terminal.

Check quotas on all mounted non-NFS filesystems:
sudo quotacheck --allClick to copyForce check even if quotas are enabled (this can cause damage or loss to quota files):
sudo quotacheck --force mountpointClick to copyCheck quotas on a given filesystem in debug mode:
sudo quotacheck --debug mountpointClick to copyCheck quotas on a given filesystem, displaying the progress:
sudo quotacheck --verbose mountpointClick to copyCheck user quotas:
sudo quotacheck --user user mountpointClick to copyCheck group quotas:
sudo quotacheck --group group mountpointClick to copy

Installing quotacheck command is simple. just copy one of the above commands for your operating system and paste it into terminal. This command is available for Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Kali, Fedora and Raspbian operating systems. Once you run the command it will install the latest version of quotacheck 2026 package in your OS.