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 threated 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.
OPTIONS
-r
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.
-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', 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 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.
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)
