NAME¶

setquota - set disk quotas

SYNOPSIS¶

/usr/sbin/setquota [ -r ] [ -u | -g ] [ -F quotaformat ] name block-softlimit block-hardlimit inode-softlimit inode-hardlimit -a | filesystem...

/usr/sbin/setquota [ -r ] [ -u | -g ] [ -F quotaformat ] [ -p protoname ] name -a | filesystem...

/usr/sbin/setquota -t [ -u | -g ] [ -F quotaformat ] 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.

-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

SEE ALSO¶

edquota(8), quota(1), quotactl(2), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8), repquota(8)