setquota(8)
NAME
setquota - set disk quotas
SYNOPSIS
setquota [ -rm ] [ -u | -g ] [ -F quotaformat ] name block-softlimit block-hardlimit inode-softlimit inode-hardlimit -a | filesystem... setquota [ -rm ] [ -u | -g ] [ -F quotaformat ] [ -p protoname ] name -a | filesystem... setquota -b [ -rm ] [ -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.
-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, setquota 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.
-F, --format=quotaformat
Perform setting 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)
-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.
--always-resolve
Always try to translate user / group name to uid / gid even if
the name is composed of digits only.
-b, --batch
Read information to set from stdin (input format is name block-
softlimit block-hardlimit inode-softlimit inode-hardlimit ).
Empty lines and lines starting with # are ignored.
-c, --continue-batch
If parsing of an input line in batch mode fails, continue with
processing the next line.
-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.
block-softlimit and block-hardlimit are 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-softlimit and inode-hardlimit 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.
To disable a quota, set the corresponding 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
edquota(8), quota(1), quotactl(2), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8), repquota(8) SETQUOTA(8)
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