edquota

EDQUOTA(8)                                                          EDQUOTA(8)



NAME
       edquota - edit user quotas

SYNOPSIS
       edquota  [  -p  protoname  ] [ -u | -g ] [ -r ] [ -F format-name ] [ -f
       filesystem ] username...

       edquota [ -u | -g ] [ -F format-name ] [ -f filesystem ] -t

DESCRIPTION
       edquota is a quota editor.  One or more users or groups may  be  speci-
       fied  on  the command line.  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 quo-
       tas 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 pur-
       poses; 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.

OPTIONS
       -r     Edit also non-local quota use rpc.rquotad on  remote  server  to
              set  quota.   The -n option is equivalent, and is maintained for
              backward compatibility.

       -u     Edit the user quota. This is the default.

       -g     Edit the group quota.

       -p 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.

       -F format-name
              Edit quota  for  specified  format  (ie.  don't  perform  format
              autodetection).   Possible  format  names are: vfsold (version 1
              quota), vfsv0 (version 2  quota),  rpc  (quota  over  NFS),  xfs
              (quota on XFS filesystem)

       -f filesystem
              Perform  specified operations only for given filesystem (default
              is to perform operations for all filesystems with quota).

       -t     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, days, weeks,  and  months  are
              understood.  Time  limits  are  printed in the greatest possible
              time unit such that the value is greater than or equal to one.

FILES
       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

SEE ALSO
       quota(1), vi(1), quotactl(2), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8), repquota(8)



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