EDQUOTA(8) EDQUOTA(8)
NAME
edquota - edit user quotas
SYNOPSIS
edquota [ -p protoname ] [ -u | -g ] [ -r ] [ -F format-name ] [ -f
filesystem ] username...
edquota [ -u | -g ] [ -F format-name ] [ -f filesystem ] -t
edquota [ -u | -g ] [ -F format-name ] [ -f filesystem ] -T username |
groupname...
DESCRIPTION
edquota is a quota editor. One or more users or groups may be speci-
fied on the command line. If a number is given in the place of
user/group name it is threated as an UID/GID. For each user or group a
temporary file is created with an ASCII representation of the current
disk quotas for that user or group and an editor is then invoked on the
file. The quotas may then be modified, new quotas added, etc. Setting
a quota to zero indicates that no quota should be imposed.
Users are permitted to exceed their soft limits for a grace period that
may be specified per filesystem. Once the grace period has expired,
the soft limit is enforced as a hard limit.
The current usage information in the file is for informational pur-
poses; only the hard and soft limits can be changed.
Upon leaving the editor, edquota reads the temporary file and modifies
the binary quota files to reflect the changes made.
The editor invoked is vi(1) unless either the EDITOR or the VISUAL
environment variable specifies otherwise.
Only the super-user may edit quotas.
OPTIONS
-r Edit also non-local quota use rpc.rquotad on remote server to
set quota. This option is available only if quota tools were
compiled with enabled support for setting quotas over RPC. The
-n option is equivalent, and is maintained for backward compati-
bility.
-u Edit the user quota. This is the default.
-g Edit the group quota.
-p protoname
Duplicate the quotas of the prototypical user specified for each
user specified. This is the normal mechanism used to initialize
quotas for groups of users.
-F format-name
Edit quota for specified format (ie. don’t perform format
autodetection). Possible format names are: vfsold (version 1
quota), vfsv0 (version 2 quota), rpc (quota over NFS), xfs
(quota on XFS filesystem)
-f filesystem
Perform specified operations only for given filesystem (default
is to perform operations for all filesystems with quota).
-t Edit the soft time limits for each filesystem. In old quota
format if the time limits are zero, the default time limits in
<linux/quota.h> are used. In new quota format time limits must
be specified (there is no default value set in kernel). Time
units of ’seconds’, ’minutes’, ’hours’, and ’days’ are under-
stood. Time limits are printed in the greatest possible time
unit such that the value is greater than or equal to one.
-T Edit time for the user/group when softlimit is enforced. Possi-
ble values are ’unset’ or number and unit. Units are the same as
in -t option.
FILES
aquota.user or aquota.group
quota file at the filesystem root (version 2 quota,
non-XFS filesystems)
quota.user or quota.group
quota file at the filesystem root (version 1 quota,
non-XFS filesystems)
/etc/mtab mounted filesystems table
SEE ALSO
quota(1), vi(1), quotactl(2), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8), repquota(8),
setquota(8)
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