SETQUOTA

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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 -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.

-r: Edit also remote quota use rpc.rquotad on remote server to set quota.
-F 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: Set user quotas for named user. This is the default.
-g: Set group quotas for named group.
-p protoname: Use quota settings of user or group protoname to set the quota for the named user or group.
-t: Set grace times for users/groups. Times block-grace and inode-grace are specified in seconds.
-T: 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: 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