Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Man Page of edquota

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, setquota will always send
              paths with a trailing slash. This can be useful for legacy  rea-
              sons  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 (version 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
              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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