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.