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(1,8) editor. One or more users(1,5) or groups may be speci-
fied on the command line. For each user or group a temporary file(1,n) 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 quo-
tas may then be modified, new quotas added, etc. Setting a quota(1,8) to
zero indicates that no quota(1,8) 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(1,8) the file(1,n) is for informational pur-
poses; only the hard and soft limits can be changed.
Upon leaving the editor, edquota reads the temporary file(1,n) and modifies
the binary quota(1,8) 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(1,8) use rpc.rquotad on remote server to
set(7,n,1 builtins) quota. This option is available only if(3,n) quota(1,8) 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(1,8) for specified format (ie. don't perform format
autodetection). Possible format names are: vfsold (version(1,3,5) 1
quota(1,8)), vfsv0 (version(1,3,5) 2 quota(1,8)), rpc(3,5,8) (quota(1,8) over NFS), xfs
(quota(1,8) on XFS filesystem)
-f filesystem
Perform specified operations only for given filesystem (default
is to perform operations for all filesystems with quota(1,8)).
-t Edit the soft time(1,2,n) limits for each filesystem. In old quota(1,8)
format if(3,n) the time(1,2,n) limits are zero, the default time(1,2,n) limits in(1,8)
<linux/quota.h> are used. In new quota(1,8) format time(1,2,n) limits must
be specified (there is no default value set(7,n,1 builtins) in(1,8) kernel). Time
units(1,7) of 'seconds', 'minutes', 'hours', 'days', 'weeks', and
'months' are understood. Time limits are printed in(1,8) the greatest
possible time(1,2,n) unit such that the value is greater than or equal
to one.
-T Edit time(1,2,n) for the user/group when softlimit is enforced. Possi-
ble values are 'unset' or number and unit. Units are same as
used in(1,8) -t option.
FILES
aquota.user or aquota.group
quota(1,8) file(1,n) at the filesystem root (version(1,3,5) 2 quota(1,8),
non-XFS filesystems)
quota.user or quota.group
quota(1,8) file(1,n) at the filesystem root (version(1,3,5) 1 quota(1,8),
non-XFS filesystems)
/etc/mtab mounted filesystems table
SEE ALSO
quota(1,8)(1), vi(1), quotactl(2), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8), repquota(8),
setquota(8)
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