EDQUOTA(8)		    System Manager's Manual		    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 speci-
       fied 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 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, --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 compati-
	      bility.

       -m, --no-mixed-pathnames
	      Currently, pathnames of NFSv4 mountpoints are sent without lead-
	      ing 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, --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 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-times
	      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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