edquota - edit user quotas
SYNOPSIS
edquota [ -p protoname ] [ -ug ] [ -r ] [ -F format-name ]
username...
edquota [ -ug ] [ -F format-name ] -t
DESCRIPTION
edquota is a quota editor. One or more users or groups
may be specified on the command line. For each user or
group a temporary file is created with an ASCII represen
tation 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 informa
tional purposes; 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. The -n option is equivalent,
and is maintained for backward compatibility.
-u Edit the user quota. This is the default.
-g Edit the group quota.
-p protoname
Duplicate the quotas of the prototypical user spec
ified 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:
rpc (quota over NFS), xfs (quota on XFS filesystem)
-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, days, weeks, and
months are understood. Time limits are printed in
the greatest possible time unit such that the value
is greater than or equal to one.
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)
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