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edquota - edit user quotas
edquota [ -p protoname ] [ -u | -g ] [
-rm ] [ -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...
edquota is a quota editor. One or
more users or groups may be specified on the command line. If a number is
given in the place of user/group name it is treated as an UID/GID. For each
user or group a temporary file 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 quotas may then be modified, new quotas added,
etc. Setting a quota to zero indicates that no quota 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 the file is
for informational purposes; only the hard and soft limits can be changed.
Upon leaving the editor, edquota reads the temporary file and modifies
the binary quota 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.
- -r, --remote
- Edit also
non-local quota use rpc.rquotad on remote server to set quota. This option
is available only if quota tools were compiled with enabled support for
setting quotas over RPC. The -n option is equivalent, and is maintained for
backward compatibility.
- -m, --no-mixed-pathnames
- Currently, pathnames of NFSv4
mountpoints are sent without leading slash in the path. rpc.rquotad uses
this to recognize NFSv4 mounts and properly prepend pseudoroot of NFS filesystem
to the path. If you specify this option, edquota will always send paths
with a leading slash. This can be useful for legacy reasons but be aware
that quota over RPC will stop working if you are using new rpc.rquotad.
- -u,
--user
- Edit the user quota. This is the default.
- -g, --group
- Edit the group quota.
- -p, --prototype=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.
- --always-resolve
- Always try to translate user /
group name to uid / gid even if the name is composed of digits only.
- -F,
--format=format-name
- Edit quota for specified format (ie. don’t perform format
autodetection). Possible format names are: vfsold Original quota format
with 16-bit UIDs / GIDs, vfsv0 Quota format with 32-bit UIDs / GIDs, 64-bit
space usage, 32-bit inode usage and limits, vfsv1 Quota format with 64-bit
quota limits and usage, rpc (quota over NFS), xfs (quota on XFS filesystem)
- -f, --filesystem filesystem
- Perform specified operations only for given filesystem
(default is to perform operations for all filesystems with quota).
- -t, --edit-period
- Edit the soft time limits for each filesystem. In old quota format if the
time limits are zero, the default time limits in <linux/quota.h> are used.
In new quota format time limits must be specified (there is no default
value set in kernel). Time units of ’seconds’, ’minutes’, ’hours’, and ’days’ are
understood. Time limits are printed in the greatest possible time unit such
that the value is greater than or equal to one.
- -T, --edit-times
- Edit time for
the user/group when softlimit is enforced. Possible values are ’unset’ or
number and unit. Units are the same as in -t option.
- aquota.user or aquota.group
- quota file at the filesystem root (version 2 quota, non-XFS filesystems)
- quota.user or quota.group
- quota file at the filesystem root (version 1 quota,
non-XFS filesystems)
- /etc/mtab
- mounted filesystems table
quota(1)
,
vi(1)
, quotactl(2)
, quotacheck(8)
, quotaon(8)
, repquota(8)
, setquota(8)
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