EDQUOTA(8)                                             EDQUOTA(8)


NAME
       edquota - edit user quotas

SYNOPSIS
       edquota [ -u ] [ -p proto-username ] username ...
       edquota -g [ -p proto-groupname ] groupname ...
       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.   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 quotas
       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 option is specified, edquota will duplicate  the
       quotas  of  the  prototypical user specified for each user
       specified.  This is the normal mechanism used to  initial-
       ize 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 specified in conjunction with
       the -g flag to specify a prototypical group to  be  dupli-
       cated 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  filesys-
       tem is specified in /usr/include/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



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EDQUOTA(8)                                             EDQUOTA(8)


       specified  in  /etc/fstab.  The grace period may be speci-
       fied 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 super-user 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

SEE ALSO
       quota(1),   quotactl(2),   fstab(5),  quotacheck(8),  quo-
       taon(8), repquota(8)

DIAGNOSTICS
       Various   messages   about   inaccessible   files;   self-
       explanatory.





































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