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QUOTATOOL(8) System Manager's Manual QUOTATOOL(8) NAME
quotatool - manipulate filesystem quotas SYNOPSIS
quotatool [-u [:]uid | -g [:]gid] [-b | -i] [-r | -l NUM | -q NUM] [-nvR] [-d] filesystem quotatool (-u | -g) (-b | -i) -t TIME [-nv] filesystem quotatool [-hV] DESCRIPTION
quotatool is a tool for manipulating filesystem quotas. Depending on the commandline options given, it can set hard or soft limits on block and inode usage, set and reset grace periods, for both users and (if your system supports this) groups. The filesystem to set the quota on is given as the first (and only) non-option element, and it is either the block special file (i.e /dev/sda3) or the mount point (i.e. /home) for the filesystem. OPTIONS
-u [[:]uid] Set user quotas -g [[:]gid] Set group quotas uid and gid are either the numerical ID of the user or group, or its name in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files. Prefix : allows using numerical uid/gid not present in /etc/passwd or /etc/group. -b Set block quotas [default] -i Set inode quotas The -b and -i options are persistent -- they stay in effect until they are overridden. -R Only raise quotas, never lower. Makes sure you don't accidentally lower quotas for a user/group. -t TIME Set the system-wide grace period to TIME. TIME consists of an optional '-' or '+' character, a number, and optionally one of the following modifiers: "seconds", "minutes", "hours", "days", "weeks", or "months". Unique abbreviations (e.g. "s", "mo") are also accepted. The default is "seconds". The argument should be preceded by -u|-g and -b|-i -r Reset the grace period -l NUM Set hard limit to NUM -q NUM Set soft limit (quota) to NUM NUM consists of an optional '-' or '+' character, a number, and optionally one of the following modifiers: "Kb", "Mb", "Gb", "Tb", "bytes", or "blocks". Unique abbreviations are also accepted. The default is "blocks" If +/- is supplied, the existing quota is increased or reduced by the specified amount. -d Dump quota info for user/group in a machine readable format: |------- BLOCKS --------| |-------- FILES --------| uid/gid mountpoint current quota limit grace current quota limit grace grace is the number of seconds from now until the grace time ends. May be negative = time already passed. When quota is not passed, grace is zero. -n dry-run: show what would have been done but don't change anything. Use together with -v -v Verbose output. Use twice or thrice for even more output (debugging) -h Print a usage message to stdout and exit successfully -V Print version information to stdout and exit successfully FILESYSTEMS
/ FORMATS On Linux, quotatool works with both "old" and "new" + "generic" kernel-quota formats and also has support for quotas on XFS. FILES
quota.user , quota.group (linux) quotas (solaris, ...) BUGS
Calling quotatool with more than one -v option will cause a segfault on some systems. This will happen if vprintf (3) fails to check for NULL arguments. GNU libc doesn't have this problem, solaris libc does. SEE ALSO
quota(1), quotactl(2), edquota(8), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8), repquota(8) version 1.4.12 1999 - 2012 QUOTATOOL(8)
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SETQUOTA(8) System Manager's Manual SETQUOTA(8) NAME
setquota - set disk quotas SYNOPSIS
setquota [ -rm ] [ -u | -g ] [ -F quotaformat ] name block-softlimit block-hardlimit inode-softlimit inode-hardlimit -a | filesystem... setquota [ -rm ] [ -u | -g ] [ -F quotaformat ] [ -p protoname ] name -a | filesystem... setquota -b [ -rm ] [ -u | -g ] [ -F quotaformat ] -a | filesystem... setquota -t [ -u | -g ] [ -F quotaformat ] block-grace inode-grace -a | filesystem... setquota -T [ -u | -g ] [ -F quotaformat ] name 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. Note that if a number is given in the place of a user/group name it is treated as an UID/GID. -r, --remote Edit also remote 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. -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 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. -F, --format=quotaformat Perform setting 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) -u, --user Set user quotas for named user. This is the default. -g, --group Set group quotas for named group. -p, --prototype=protoname Use quota settings of user or group protoname to set the quota for the named user or group. --always-resolve Always try to translate user / group name to uid / gid even if the name is composed of digits only. -b, --batch Read information to set from stdin (input format is name block-softlimit block-hardlimit inode-softlimit inode-hardlimit ). Empty lines and lines starting with # are ignored. -c, --continue-batch If parsing of an input line in batch mode fails, continue with processing the next line. -t, --edit-period Set grace times for users/groups. Times block-grace and inode-grace are specified in seconds. -T, --edit-times Alter times for individual user/group when softlimit is enforced. Times block-grace and inode-grace are specified in seconds or can be string 'unset'. -a, --all Go through all filesystems with quota in /etc/mtab and perform setting. To disable a quota, set the corresponding 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)