Solaris: disk usage of all users on a filesystem

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Created: Nov 27, 2005

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The quot command provides a quick measure of the disk usage of multple users on a filesystem.

The quote command must be run as or with the privileges of root. Here is sample output for the quot command:

In this output, the raw device of the filesystem is shown first. The username is provided if known. The numeric uids 5115 and 317 own files but are unassociated with a username in /etc/passwd as is common when files are untarred from another system.

The -a option can be used in place of the filesystem to check (/usr in that example) and will make quot iterate through all mounted filesystems. The -f option will add a middle column containing the number of files owned by each user.

The quot command could be very useful when a filesystem fills suddenly as it can quickly determine what user to flog or which application has to be checked.