EDQUOTA linux command manual

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

       edquota [ -u | -g ] [ -F format-name ] [ -f filesystem ] -T username |
       groupname...

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
       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	 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 ini-
	      tialize 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
	        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  great-
	      est  possible  time unit such that the value is greater than or
	      equal to one.

       -T     Edit time for the user/group when softlimit is enforced. Possi-
	      ble  values  are	'unset' or number and unit. Units are same as
	      used in -t option.

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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