edquota(1M)                                               System Administration Commands                                               edquota(1M)

NAME

       edquota - edit user quotas for ufs file system

SYNOPSIS

       edquota [-p proto_user] username...

       edquota -t

DESCRIPTION

       edquota is a quota editor.  One or more users may be specified on the command line. For each user a temporary file is created with an ASCII
       representation of the current disk quotas for that user for each mounted ufs file system that has a quotas file,  and  an  editor  is  then
       invoked  on the file. The quotas may then be modified, new quotas added, etc. 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 the EDITOR environment variable specifies otherwise.

       Only the super-user may edit quotas.  In order for quotas to be established on a file system, the root directory of the  file  system  must
       contain a file, owned by root, called quotas. (See quotaon(1M).)

       proto_user and username can be numeric, corresponding to the  UID of a user. Unassigned UIDs may be specified; unassigned names may not. In
       this way, default quotas can be established for users who are later assigned a UID.

       If no options are specified, the temporary file created will have one or more lines of the format, where a block is considered to be a 1024
       byte(1K) block:

       fs mount_point blocks (soft =number, 
            hard =number ) inodes (soft =number, 
            hard =number)

       The  number fields may be modified to reflect desired values.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -p       Duplicate the quotas of the proto_user specified for each username specified. This is the normal mechanism used to initialize quo-
                tas for groups of users.

       -t       Edit  the  soft  time  limits  for  each  file  system.  If  the  time   limits   are   zero,   the   default   time   limits   in
                /usr/include/sys/fs/ufs_quota.h are used. The temporary file created will have one or more lines of the form

                fs mount_point blocks time limit = number tmunit,  files time limit = number tmunit

       tmunit  may be one of ``month'', ``week'', ``day'', ``hour'', ``min'' or ``sec''; characters appended to these keywords are ignored, so you
       may write ``months'' or ``minutes'' if you prefer. The number and tmunit fields may be modified to set  desired  values.  Time  limits  are
       printed in the greatest possible time unit such that the value is greater than or equal to one. If ``default'' is printed after the tmunit,
       this indicates that the value shown is zero (the default).

USAGE

       See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of edquota when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes).

FILES

       quotas          quota file at the file system root

       /etc/mnttab     table of mounted file systems

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWcsu                      |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       vi(1), quota(1M), quotacheck(1M), quotaon(1M), repquota(1M), attributes(5), largefile(5), quotactl(7I)

NOTES

       All UIDs can be assigned quotas.

SunOS 5.10                                                          14 Feb 2003                                                        edquota(1M)