1SETQUOTA(8) System Manager's Manual SETQUOTA(8)
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6 setquota - set disk quotas
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9 setquota [ -rm ] [ -u | -g ] [ -F quotaformat ] name block-softlimit
10 block-hardlimit inode-softlimit inode-hardlimit -a | filesystem...
11 setquota [ -rm ] [ -u | -g ] [ -F quotaformat ] [ -p protoname ] name
13 -a | filesystem...
14 setquota -b [ -rm ] [ -u | -g ] [ -F quotaformat ] -a | filesystem...
16 setquota -t [ -u | -g ] [ -F quotaformat ] block-grace inode-grace -a |
18 filesystem...
19 setquota -T [ -u | -g ] [ -F quotaformat ] name block-grace inode-grace
21 -a | filesystem...
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24 setquota is a command line quota editor. The filesystem, user/group
25 name and new quotas for this filesystem can be specified on the command
26 line. Note that if a number is given in the place of a user/group name
27 it is treated as an UID/GID.
28 -r, --remote
30 Edit also remote quota use rpc.rquotad on remote server to set
31 quota. This option is available only if quota tools were com‐
32 piled with enabled support for setting quotas over RPC.
33 -m, --no-mixed-pathnames
35 Currently, pathnames of NFSv4 mountpoints are sent without lead‐
36 ing slash in the path. rpc.rquotad uses this to recognize NFSv4
37 mounts and properly prepend pseudoroot of NFS filesystem to the
38 path. If you specify this option, setquota will always send
39 paths with a leading slash. This can be useful for legacy rea‐
40 sons but be aware that quota over RPC will stop working if you
41 are using new rpc.rquotad.
42 -F, --format=quotaformat
44 Perform setting for specified format (ie. don't perform format
45 autodetection). Possible format names are: vfsold Original
46 quota format with 16-bit UIDs / GIDs, vfsv0 Quota format with
47 32-bit UIDs / GIDs, 64-bit space usage, 32-bit inode usage and
48 limits, vfsv1 Quota format with 64-bit quota limits and usage,
49 rpc (quota over NFS), xfs (quota on XFS filesystem)
50 -u, --user
52 Set user quotas for named user. This is the default.
53 -g, --group
55 Set group quotas for named group.
56 -p, --prototype=protoname
58 Use quota settings of user or group protoname to set the quota
59 for the named user or group.
60 --always-resolve
62 Always try to translate user / group name to uid / gid even if
63 the name is composed of digits only.
64 -b, --batch
66 Read information to set from stdin (input format is name block-
67 softlimit block-hardlimit inode-softlimit inode-hardlimit ).
68 Empty lines and lines starting with # are ignored.
69 -c, --continue-batch
71 If parsing of an input line in batch mode fails, continue with
72 processing the next line.
73 -t, --edit-period
75 Set grace times for users/groups. Times block-grace and inode-
76 grace are specified in seconds.
77 -T, --edit-times
79 Alter times for individual user/group when softlimit is
80 enforced. Times block-grace and inode-grace are specified in
81 seconds or can be string 'unset'.
82 -a, --all
84 Go through all filesystems with quota in /etc/mtab and perform
85 setting.
86 block-softlimit and block-hardlimit are interpreted as multiples of
88 kibibyte (1024 bytes) blocks by default. Symbols K, M, G, and T can be
89 appended to numeric value to express kibibytes, mebibytes, gibibytes,
90 and tebibytes.
91 inode-softlimit and inode-hardlimit are interpreted literally. Symbols
93 k, m, g, and t can be appended to numeric value to express multiples of
94 10^3, 10^6, 10^9, and 10^12 inodes.
95 To disable a quota, set the corresponding parameter to 0. To change
97 quotas for several filesystems, invoke once for each filesystem.
98 Only the super-user may edit quotas.
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102 aquota.user or aquota.group
103 quota file at the filesystem root (version 2 quota,
104 non-XFS filesystems)
105 quota.user or quota.group
106 quota file at the filesystem root (version 1 quota,
107 non-XFS filesystems)
108 /etc/mtab mounted filesystem table
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111 edquota(8), quota(1), quotactl(2), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8),
112 repquota(8)
113 SETQUOTA(8)