SETQUOTA(8) manual page
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setquota - set disk quotas
setquota [ -rm ] [ -u | -g ] [ -F quotaformat
] name block-softlimit block-hardlimit inode-softlimit inode-hardlimit -a | filesystem...
setquota [ -rm ] [ -u | -g ] [ -F quotaformat ] [ -p protoname ] name -a | filesystem...
setquota -b [ -rm ] [ -u | -g ] [ -F quotaformat ] -a | filesystem...
setquota -t [
-u | -g ] [ -F quotaformat ] block-grace inode-grace -a | filesystem...
setquota -T
[ -u | -g ] [ -F quotaformat ] name block-grace inode-grace -a | filesystem...
setquota is a command line quota editor. The filesystem, user/group
name and new quotas for this filesystem can be specified on the command
line. Note that if a number is given in the place of a user/group name it
is treated as an UID/GID.
- -r, --remote
- Edit also remote 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.
- -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,
setquota 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.
- -F, --format=quotaformat
- Perform setting 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)
- -u, --user
- Set user quotas for named
user. This is the default.
- -g, --group
- Set group quotas for named group.
- -p, --prototype=protoname
- Use quota settings of user or group protoname to set the quota for the
named user or group.
- --always-resolve
- Always try to translate user / group
name to uid / gid even if the name is composed of digits only.
- -b, --batch
- Read information to set from stdin (input format is name block-softlimit
block-hardlimit inode-softlimit inode-hardlimit ). Empty lines and lines starting
with # are ignored.
- -c, --continue-batch
- If parsing of an input line in batch
mode fails, continue with processing the next line.
- -t, --edit-period
- Set grace
times for users/groups. Times block-grace and inode-grace are specified in
seconds.
- -T, --edit-times
- Alter times for individual user/group when softlimit
is enforced. Times block-grace and inode-grace are specified in seconds or
can be string ’unset’.
- -a, --all
- Go through all filesystems with quota in /etc/mtab
and perform setting.
To disable a quota, set the corresponding parameter
to 0. To change quotas for several filesystems, invoke once for each filesystem.
Only the super-user may edit quotas.
- 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 filesystem table
edquota(8)
, quota(1)
,
quotactl(2)
, quotacheck(8)
, quotaon(8)
, repquota(8)
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