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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 specified 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 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 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 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, setquota will always send paths
	      with a trailing 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.

       -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
	      <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 when softlimit is enforced. Possible 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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