NAME
setquota - set disk quotas
SYNOPSIS
setquota
[
-r
]
[
-u
|
-g
]
[
-F
quotaformat
]
name
block-softlimit
block-hardlimit
inode-softlimit
inode-hardlimit
-a
|
filesystem...
setquota
[
-r
]
[
-u
|
-g
]
[
-F
quotaformat
]
[
-p
protoname
]
name
-a
|
filesystem...
setquota
-b
[
-r
]
[
-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 command 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.
-F, --format=quotaformat
Perform setting for specified format (ie. don't perform format autodetection).
Possible format names are:
vfsold
(version 1 quota),
vfsv0
(version 2 quota),
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.
-b, --batch
Read information to set from stdin (input format is
name block-softlimit block-hardlimit inode-softlimit inode-hardlimit
).
-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 coresponding 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