MirBSD manpage: edquota(8)

EDQUOTA(8)               BSD System Manager's Manual                EDQUOTA(8)

NAME

     edquota - edit user quotas

SYNOPSIS

     edquota [-u] [-p proto-username] username | uid [...]
     edquota -g [-p proto-groupname] groupname | gid [...]
     edquota -t [-u]
     edquota -t -g

DESCRIPTION

     edquota is a quota editor. By default, or if the -u flag is specified,
     one or more users may be specified on the command line. If a numeric ID
     is given instead of a name, that UID/GID will be used even if there is
     not a corresponding ID in the /etc/passwd or /etc/group files. For each
     user a temporary file is created with an ASCII representation of the
     current disk quotas for that user. The list of filesystems with user quo-
     tas is determined from /etc/fstab. An editor is invoked on the ASCII
     file. The editor invoked is vi(1) unless the environment variable EDITOR
     specifies otherwise.

     The quotas may then be modified, new quotas added, etc. Setting a quota
     to zero indicates that no quota should be imposed. Setting a hard limit
     to one indicates that no allocations should be permitted. Setting a soft
     limit to one with a hard limit of zero indicates that allocations should
     be permitted on only a temporary basis (see -t below). The current usage
     information in the file is for informational purposes; only the hard and
     soft limits can be changed.

     On leaving the editor, edquota reads the temporary file and modifies the
     binary quota files to reflect the changes made.

     If the -p flag is specified, edquota will 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.

     If the -g flag is specified, edquota is invoked to edit the quotas of one
     or more groups specified on the command line. The -p flag can be speci-
     fied in conjunction with the -g flag to specify a prototypical group to
     be duplicated among the listed set of groups.

     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 default grace period for a
     filesystem is specified in /usr/include/ufs/ufs/quota.h. The -t flag can
     be used to change the grace period. By default, or when invoked with the
     -u flag, the grace period is set for all the filesystems with user quotas
     specified in /etc/fstab. When invoked with the -g flag the grace period
     is set for all the filesystems with group quotas specified in /etc/fstab.
     The grace period may be specified in days, hours, minutes, or seconds.
     Setting a grace period to zero indicates that the default grace period
     should be imposed. Setting a grace period to one second indicates that no
     grace period should be granted.

     Only the superuser may edit quotas.

FILES

     quota.user   at the filesystem root with user quotas
     quota.group  at the filesystem root with group quotas
     /etc/fstab   to find filesystem names and locations

DIAGNOSTICS

     Various messages about inaccessible files; self-explanatory.

SEE ALSO

     quota(1), quotactl(2), fstab(5), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8), repquota(8)

MirBSD #10-current               June 6, 1993                                1

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