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 | -P ] [ -rm ] [ -F format-name ] [
10 -f filesystem ] username | groupname | projectname...
11 edquota [ -u | -g | -P ] [ -F format-name ] [ -f filesystem ] -t
13 edquota [ -u | -g | -P ] [ -F format-name ] [ -f filesystem ] -T user‐
15 name | groupname | projectname...
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18 edquota is a quota editor. One or more users, groups, or projects may
19 be specified on the command line. If a number is given in the place of
20 user/group/project name it is treated as an UID/GID/Project ID. For
21 each user, group, or project a temporary file is created with an ASCII
22 representation of the current disk quotas for that user, group, or
23 project and an editor is then invoked on the file. The quotas may then
24 be modified, new quotas added, etc. Setting a quota to zero indicates
25 that no quota should be imposed.
26 Block usage and limits are reported and interpreted as multiples of
28 kibibyte (1024 bytes) blocks by default. Symbols K, M, G, and T can be
29 appended to numeric value to express kibibytes, mebibytes, gibibytes,
30 and tebibytes.
31 Inode usage and limits are interpreted literally. Symbols k, m, g, and
33 t can be appended to numeric value to express multiples of 10^3, 10^6,
34 10^9, and 10^12 inodes.
35 Users are permitted to exceed their soft limits for a grace period that
37 may be specified per filesystem. Once the grace period has expired,
38 the soft limit is enforced as a hard limit.
39 The current usage information in the file is for informational pur‐
41 poses; only the hard and soft limits can be changed.
42 Upon leaving the editor, edquota reads the temporary file and modifies
44 the binary quota files to reflect the changes made.
45 The editor invoked is vi(1) unless either the EDITOR or the VISUAL
47 environment variable specifies otherwise.
48 Only the super-user may edit quotas.
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52 -r, --remote
53 Edit also non-local quota use rpc.rquotad on remote server to
54 set quota. This option is available only if quota tools were
55 compiled with enabled support for setting quotas over RPC. The
56 -n option is equivalent, and is maintained for backward compati‐
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58 -m, --no-mixed-pathnames
60 Currently, pathnames of NFSv4 mountpoints are sent without lead‐
61 ing slash in the path. rpc.rquotad uses this to recognize NFSv4
62 mounts and properly prepend pseudoroot of NFS filesystem to the
63 path. If you specify this option, edquota will always send paths
64 with a leading slash. This can be useful for legacy reasons but
65 be aware that quota over RPC will stop working if you are using
66 new rpc.rquotad.
67 -u, --user
69 Edit the user quota. This is the default.
70 -g, --group
72 Edit the group quota.
73 -P, --project
75 Edit the project quota.
76 -p, --prototype=protoname
78 Duplicate the quotas of the prototypical user specified for each
79 user specified. This is the normal mechanism used to initialize
80 quotas for groups of users.
81 --always-resolve
83 Always try to translate user / group name to uid / gid even if
84 the name is composed of digits only.
85 -F, --format=format-name
87 Edit quota for specified format (ie. don't perform format
88 autodetection). Possible format names are: vfsold Original
89 quota format with 16-bit UIDs / GIDs, vfsv0 Quota format with
90 32-bit UIDs / GIDs, 64-bit space usage, 32-bit inode usage and
91 limits, vfsv1 Quota format with 64-bit quota limits and usage,
92 rpc (quota over NFS), xfs (quota on XFS filesystem)
93 -f, --filesystem filesystem
95 Perform specified operations only for given filesystem (default
96 is to perform operations for all filesystems with quota).
97 -t, --edit-period
99 Edit the soft time limits for each filesystem. In old quota
100 format if the time limits are zero, the default time limits in
101 <linux/quota.h> are used. In new quota format time limits must
102 be specified (there is no default value set in kernel). Time
103 units of 'seconds', 'minutes', 'hours', and 'days' are under‐
104 stood. Time limits are printed in the greatest possible time
105 unit such that the value is greater than or equal to one.
106 -T, --edit-times
108 Edit time for the user/group/project when softlimit is enforced.
109 Possible values are 'unset' or number and unit. Units are the
110 same as in -t option.
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113 aquota.user or aquota.group
114 quota file at the filesystem root (version 2 quota,
115 non-XFS filesystems)
116 quota.user or quota.group
117 quota file at the filesystem root (version 1 quota,
118 non-XFS filesystems)
119 /etc/mtab mounted filesystems table
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122 quota(1), vi(1), quotactl(2), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8), repquota(8),
123 setquota(8)
124 EDQUOTA(8)