edquota - edit user quotas
edquota [
-p protoname ] [
-u |
-g |
-P ] [
-rm ] [
-F format-name ]
[
-f filesystem ]
username |
groupname |
projectname...
edquota [
-u |
-g |
-P ] [
-F
format-name ] [
-f filesystem ]
-t
edquota [
-u |
-g |
-P ] [
-F
format-name ] [
-f filesystem ]
-T
username |
groupname |
projectname...
edquota is a quota editor. One or more users, groups, or projects may be
specified on the command line. If a number is given in the place of
user/group/project name it is treated as an UID/GID/Project ID. For each user,
group, or project a temporary file is created with an
ASCII
representation of the current disk quotas for that user, group, or project 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.
Block usage and limits are reported and interpreted as multiples of kibibyte
(1024 bytes) blocks by default. Symbols K, M, G, and T can be appended to
numeric value to express kibibytes, mebibytes, gibibytes, and tebibytes.
Inode usage and limits are interpreted literally. Symbols k, m, g, and t can be
appended to numeric value to express multiples of 10^3, 10^6, 10^9, and 10^12
inodes.
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
editor(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, --project
- Edit the project 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/project 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),
editor(1),
quotactl(2),
quotacheck(8),
quotaon(8),
repquota(8),
setquota(8)