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EDQUOTA(8) System Manager's Manual EDQUOTA(8)
edquota - edit user quotas
edquota [ -p protoname ] [ -u | -g | -P ] [ -rm ] [ -F format-name
] [ -f filesystem ] username | groupname | projectname...
edquota [ -u | -g | -P ] [ -F format-name ] [ -f filesystem ] -t
edquota [ -u | -g | -P ] [ -F format-name ] [ -f filesystem ] -T
username | groupname | projectname...
edquota is a quota editor. One or more users, groups, or projects
may be specified on the command line. If a number is given in the
place of user/group/project name it is treated as an
UID/GID/Project ID. For each user, group, or project a temporary
file is created with an ASCII representation of the current disk
quotas for that user, group, or project 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.
Block usage and limits are reported and interpreted as multiples
of kibibyte (1024 bytes) blocks by default. Symbols K, M, G, and T
can be appended to numeric value to express kibibytes, mebibytes,
gibibytes, and tebibytes.
Inode usage and limits are interpreted literally. Symbols k, m, g,
and t can be appended to numeric value to express multiples of
10^3, 10^6, 10^9, and 10^12 inodes.
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.
-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,
edquota 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.
-u, --user
Edit the user quota. This is the default.
-g, --group
Edit the group quota.
-P, --project
Edit the project 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.
--always-resolve
Always try to translate user / group name to uid / gid even
if the name is composed of digits only.
-F, --format=format-name
Edit quota 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)
-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/project when softlimit is
enforced. Possible values are 'unset' or number and unit.
Units are the same as in -t option.
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
quota(1), vi(1), quotactl(2), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8),
repquota(8), setquota(8)
This page is part of the quota (Linux Diskquota Tools) project.
Information about the project can be found at [unknown -- if you
know, please contact [email protected]] It is not known how to
report bugs for this man page; if you know, please send a mail to
[email protected]. This page was obtained from the project's
upstream Git repository
⟨git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/quota/quota-tools.git⟩ on
2025-08-11. (At that time, the date of the most recent commit
that was found in the repository was 2025-07-02.) If you discover
any rendering problems in this HTML version of the page, or you
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COLOPHON (which is not part of the original manual page), send a
mail to [email protected]
EDQUOTA(8)
Pages that refer to this page: quota(1), convertquota(8), pam_setquota(8), quotacheck(8), repquota(8), rpc.rquotad(8), setquota(8), warnquota(8)
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