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quotacheck:tldr:2d6b9
quotacheck: Check quotas on all mounted non-NFS filesystems.
$ sudo quotacheck --all
try on your machine
The command sudo quotacheck --all
is used to check disk usage and enforce disk quotas on a file system.
To explain it further:
sudo
is a command that allows a user with administrative privileges to execute a command as a superuser or another user.quotacheck
is a command used to scan a file system and collect disk usage information.--all
is an option that instructs thequotacheck
command to check all file systems listed in the/etc/fstab
file.
Combining these components, the given command runs the quotacheck
command with administrative privileges, scanning and collecting disk usage information for all file systems defined in the /etc/fstab
file. It helps in managing and enforcing disk quotas, which are limits set on the amount of disk space a user or a group can utilize.
This explanation was created by an AI. In most cases those are correct. But please always be careful and
never run a command you are not sure if it is safe.