1EDQUOTA(8) System Manager's Manual EDQUOTA(8)
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6 edquota - edit user quotas
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9 edquota [ -p protoname ] [ -u | -g ] [ -rm ] [ -F format-name ] [ -f
10 filesystem ] username...
11 edquota [ -u | -g ] [ -F format-name ] [ -f filesystem ] -t
13 edquota [ -u | -g ] [ -F format-name ] [ -f filesystem ] -T username |
15 groupname...
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18 edquota is a quota editor. One or more users or groups may be speci‐
19 fied on the command line. If a number is given in the place of
20 user/group name it is treated as an UID/GID. For each user or group a
21 temporary file is created with an ASCII representation of the current
22 disk quotas for that user or group and an editor is then invoked on the
23 file. The quotas may then be modified, new quotas added, etc. Setting
24 a quota to zero indicates that no quota should be imposed.
25 Block usage and limits are reported and interpereted as multiples of
27 kibibyte (1024 bytes) blocks by default. Symbols K, M, G, and T can be
28 appended to numeric value to express kibibytes, mebibytes, gibibytes,
29 and tebibytes.
30 Inode usage and limits are interpreted literally. Symbols k, m, g, and
32 t can be appended to numeric value to express multiples of 10^3, 10^6,
33 10^9, and 10^12 inodes.
34 Users are permitted to exceed their soft limits for a grace period that
36 may be specified per filesystem. Once the grace period has expired,
37 the soft limit is enforced as a hard limit.
38 The current usage information in the file is for informational pur‐
40 poses; only the hard and soft limits can be changed.
41 Upon leaving the editor, edquota reads the temporary file and modifies
43 the binary quota files to reflect the changes made.
44 The editor invoked is vi(1) unless either the EDITOR or the VISUAL
46 environment variable specifies otherwise.
47 Only the super-user may edit quotas.
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51 -r, --remote
52 Edit also non-local quota use rpc.rquotad on remote server to
53 set quota. This option is available only if quota tools were
54 compiled with enabled support for setting quotas over RPC. The
55 -n option is equivalent, and is maintained for backward compati‐
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57 -m, --no-mixed-pathnames
59 Currently, pathnames of NFSv4 mountpoints are sent without lead‐
60 ing slash in the path. rpc.rquotad uses this to recognize NFSv4
61 mounts and properly prepend pseudoroot of NFS filesystem to the
62 path. If you specify this option, setquota will always send
63 paths with a trailing slash. This can be useful for legacy rea‐
64 sons but be aware that quota over RPC will stop working if you
65 are using new rpc.rquotad.
66 -u, --user
68 Edit the user quota. This is the default.
69 -g, --group
71 Edit the group quota.
72 -p, --prototype=protoname
74 Duplicate the quotas of the prototypical user specified for each
75 user specified. This is the normal mechanism used to initialize
76 quotas for groups of users.
77 --always-resolve
79 Always try to translate user / group name to uid / gid even if
80 the name is composed of digits only.
81 -F, --format=format-name
83 Edit quota for specified format (ie. don't perform format
84 autodetection). Possible format names are: vfsold Original
85 quota format with 16-bit UIDs / GIDs, vfsv0 Quota format with
86 32-bit UIDs / GIDs, 64-bit space usage, 32-bit inode usage and
87 limits, vfsv1 Quota format with 64-bit quota limits and usage,
88 rpc (quota over NFS), xfs (quota on XFS filesystem)
89 -f, --filesystem filesystem
91 Perform specified operations only for given filesystem (default
92 is to perform operations for all filesystems with quota).
93 -t, --edit-period
95 Edit the soft time limits for each filesystem. In old quota
96 format if the time limits are zero, the default time limits in
97 <linux/quota.h> are used. In new quota format time limits must
98 be specified (there is no default value set in kernel). Time
99 units of 'seconds', 'minutes', 'hours', and 'days' are under‐
100 stood. Time limits are printed in the greatest possible time
101 unit such that the value is greater than or equal to one.
102 -T, --edit-times
104 Edit time for the user/group when softlimit is enforced. Possi‐
105 ble values are 'unset' or number and unit. Units are the same as
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109 aquota.user or aquota.group
110 quota file at the filesystem root (version 2 quota,
111 non-XFS filesystems)
112 quota.user or quota.group
113 quota file at the filesystem root (version 1 quota,
114 non-XFS filesystems)
115 /etc/mtab mounted filesystems table
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118 quota(1), vi(1), quotactl(2), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8), repquota(8),
119 setquota(8)
120 EDQUOTA(8)