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.  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 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.   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 compati-
              bility.

       -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  under-
              stood.  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.  Possi-
              ble 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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