EDQUOTA(8)                                                                                                            EDQUOTA(8)



NAME
       edquota - edit user quotas

SYNOPSIS
       edquota [ -p protoname ] [ -u | -g ] [ -rm ] [ -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 specified on the command line. If a number is given in the
       place of user/group name it is treated 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, --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 main-
              tained 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,
              setquota will always send paths with a trailing 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, --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.

       -F, --format=format-name
              Edit quota for specified format (ie. don't perform format autodetection).  Possible format names are: vfsold (ver-
              sion 1 quota), vfsv0 (version 2 quota), 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 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)
       /etc/mtab           mounted filesystems table

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



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