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 [ -m ] [ -u | -g ] [ -F quotaformat ] block-grace inode-
18 grace -a | filesystem...
19 setquota -T [ -m ] [ -u | -g ] [ -F quotaformat ] name block-grace
21 inode-grace -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 trailing 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 (version 1
46 quota), vfsv0 (version 2 quota), rpc (quota over NFS), xfs
47 (quota on XFS filesystem)
48 -u, --user
50 Set user quotas for named user. This is the default.
51 -g, --group
53 Set group quotas for named group.
54 -p, --prototype=protoname
56 Use quota settings of user or group protoname to set the quota
57 for the named user or group.
58 -b, --batch
60 Read information to set from stdin (input format is name block-
61 softlimit block-hardlimit inode-softlimit inode-hardlimit ).
62 Empty lines and lines starting with # are ignored.
63 -c, --continue-batch
65 If parsing of an input line in batch mode fails, continue with
66 processing the next line.
67 -t, --edit-period
69 Set grace times for users/groups. Times block-grace and inode-
70 grace are specified in seconds.
71 -T, --edit-times
73 Alter times for individual user/group when softlimit is
74 enforced. Times block-grace and inode-grace are specified in
75 seconds or can be string 'unset'.
76 -a, --all
78 Go through all filesystems with quota in /etc/mtab and perform
79 setting.
80 To disable a quota, set the coresponding parameter to 0. To change quo‐
82 tas for several filesystems, invoke once for each filesystem.
83 Only the super-user may edit quotas.
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87 aquota.user or aquota.group
88 quota file at the filesystem root (version 2 quota,
89 non-XFS filesystems)
90 quota.user or quota.group
91 quota file at the filesystem root (version 1 quota,
92 non-XFS filesystems)
93 /etc/mtab mounted filesystem table
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96 edquota(8), quota(1), quotactl(2), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8),
97 repquota(8)
98 SETQUOTA(8)