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@@ -48,18 +48,25 @@ repquota \- summarize quotas for a filesystem
.B repquota
prints a summary of the disc usage and quotas for the specified file
systems. For each user the current number of files and amount of space
-(in kilobytes) is printed, along with any quotas created with
-.BR edquota (8).
-As
+(in kilobytes) is printed, along with any quota limits set with
+.BR edquota (8)
+or
+.BR setquota (8).
+In the second column repquota prints two characters marking which limits are
+exceeded. If user is over his space softlimit or reaches his space hardlimit in
+case softlimit is unset, the first character is '+'. Otherwise the character
+printed is '-'. The second character denotes the state of inode usage
+analogously.
+
.B repquota
has to translate ids of all users/groups to names (unless option
.B -n
-was specified) it may take a while to
+was specified) so it may take a while to
print all the information. To make translating as fast as possible
.B repquota
tries to detect (by reading
.BR /etc/nsswitch.conf )
-whether entries are stored in standard plain text file or in database and either
+whether entries are stored in standard plain text file or in a database and either
translates chunks of 1024 names or each name individually. You can override this
autodetection by
.B -c