QUOTATAB(5) File Formats Manual QUOTATAB(5)

# [NAME](#NAME)

quotatab - Descriptions of devices with disk quotas

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

**/etc/quotatab**

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

The **quotatab** file lists human descriptions of devices for the purpose of [**warnquota**(8)](/man/os/quota-tools/warnquota.8) 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](#EXAMPLE)

\# comment

/dev/sda2: Home directories.|This becomes the second line.

# [FILES](#FILES)

**/etc/quotatab**

list of device descriptions

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

[**warnquota**(8)](/man/os/quota-tools/warnquota.8).

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Document: quotatab(5) from quota-tools 4.11-r3 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://git.code.sf.net/p/linuxquota/code