edquota(8) System Manager's Manual edquota(8)Name
edquota - edit user quotas
Syntax
edquota [ -p proto-user ] users...
Description
The command is a quota editor. You can specify one or more users on the command line. For each user, creates a temporary file with an
ASCII representation of the current disc quotas for that user and an editor is then invoked on the file. You can then modify the quotas,
add new quotas, and so forth. Upon leaving the editor, reads the temporary file and modifies the binary quota files to reflect the changes
made.
If a valid quota file does not exist, refers the user to The user then has the option of either supplying the command which automatically
creates the necessary quota file, or creating an empty quota file by various other means.
If the option is specified, duplicates for each user, the quotas of the prototypical user specified. This is the usual mechanism used to
initialize quotas for groups of users.
The editor invoked is unless the environment variable EDITOR specifies otherwise.
Only the superuser can edit quotas.
Diagnostics
Various messages about inaccessible files. Other messages are self-explanatory.
Files
quotas At the root of each file system with quotas
Used to find file system names and locations
See Alsoquota(1), quota(2), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8), repquota(8)
``Disk Quotas in a UNIX Environment,'' ULTRIX Supplementary Documents, Volume 3: System Manager
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REPQUOTA(8) BSD System Manager's Manual REPQUOTA(8)NAME
repquota -- summarize quotas for a file system
SYNOPSIS
repquota [-g] [-u] [-v] filesystem ...
repquota [-g] [-u] [-v] -a
DESCRIPTION
Repquota prints a summary of the disk usage and quotas for the specified file systems.
Available options:
-a Print the quotas of all the filesystems configured with a quota mount option file at its root.
-g Print only group quotas (the default is to print both group and user quotas if they exist).
-u Print only user quotas (the default is to print both group and user quotas if they exist).
-v Print a header line before printing each filesystem quotas.
For each user or group, the current number of files and amount of space (in kilobytes) is printed, along with any quotas created with
edquota(8).
Only members of the operator group or the super-user may use this command.
FILES
Each of the following quota files is located at the root of the mounted filesystem. The mount option files are empty files whose existence
indicates that quotas are to be enabled for that filesystem.
.quota.user data file containing user quotas
.quota.group data file containing group quotas
.quota.ops.user mount option file used to enable user quotas
.quota.ops.group mount option file used to enable group quotas
SEE ALSO quota(1), quotactl(2), edquota(8), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8)DIAGNOSTICS
Various messages about inaccessible files; self-explanatory.
HISTORY
The repquota command appeared in 4.2BSD.
4.2 Berkeley Distribution March 28, 2002 4.2 Berkeley Distribution
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