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setquota

SETQUOTA(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       SETQUOTA(8)

NAME

       setquota - set disk quotas

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/setquota [ -r ] [ -u | -g ] [ -F quotaformat ] name block-softlimit block-hardlimit inode-softlimit inode-hardlimit -a | filesys-
       tem...

       /usr/sbin/setquota [ -r ] [ -u | -g ] [ -F quotaformat ] [ -p protoname ] name -a | filesystem...

       /usr/sbin/setquota -t [ -u | -g ] [ -F quotaformat ] block-grace inode-grace -a | filesystem...

DESCRIPTION

       setquota is a command line quota editor.  The filesystem, user/group name and new quotas for this filesystem can be specified on  the  com-
       mand line.

       -r     Edit also remote quota use rpc.rquotad on remote server to set quota.

       -F quotaformat
	      Perform setting 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)

       -u     Set user quotas for named user. This is the default.

       -g     Set group quotas for named group.

       -p protoname
	      Use quota settings of user or group protoname to set the quota for the named user or group.

       -t     Set grace times for users/groups. Times block-grace and inode-grace are specified in seconds.

       -a     Go through all filesystems with quota in /etc/mtab and perform setting.

       To disable a quota, set the coresponding parameter to 0. To change quotas for several filesystems, invoke once for each filesystem.

       Only the super-user may edit quotas.

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 filesystem table

SEE ALSO

       edquota(8), quota(1), quotactl(2), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8), repquota(8)

																       SETQUOTA(8)