SETQUOTA
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NAME
setquota - set disk quotas
SYNOPSIS
setquota
[
-rm
]
[
-u
|
-g
|
-P
]
[
-F
quotaformat
]
name
block-softlimit
block-hardlimit
inode-softlimit
inode-hardlimit
-a
|
filesystem...
setquota
[
-rm
]
[
-u
|
-g
|
-P
]
[
-F
quotaformat
]
[
-p
protoname
]
name
-a
|
filesystem...
setquota
-b
[
-rm
]
[
-u
|
-g
|
-P
]
[
-F
quotaformat
]
-a
|
filesystem...
setquota
-t
[
-u
|
-g
|
-P
]
[
-F
quotaformat
]
block-grace
inode-grace
-a
|
filesystem...
setquota
-T
[
-u
|
-g
|
-P
]
[
-F
quotaformat
]
name
block-grace
inode-grace
-a
|
filesystem...
DESCRIPTION
setquota
is a command line quota editor.
The filesystem, user/group/project 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/project name it is treated as an UID/GID/project ID.
- -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, --project
-
Set project quotas for named project.
- -p, --prototype=protoname
-
Use quota settings of user, group or project
protoname
to set the quota for the named user, group or project.
- --always-resolve
-
Always try to translate user / group / project name to
uid / gid / project ID 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/projects. Times
block-grace
and
inode-grace
are specified in seconds.
- -T, --edit-times
-
Alter times for individual user/group/project 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)