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EDQUOTA 8 ""
C 5 NAME
edquota - edit user quotas
SYNOPSIS
edquota [
-p proto-user ]
users ... DESCRIPTION
Edquota is a quota editor. 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
disc quotas for that user and an editor is
then invoked on the file. The quotas may then
be modified, new quotas added, etc. Upon
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 initialize quotas for groups of users.
The editor invoked is vi (1) unless the environment variable EDITOR specifies otherwise.
Only the super-user may edit quotas.
FILES
quotas at the root of each file system with quotas
/etc/fstab to find file system names and locations
SEE ALSO
quota(1), quota(2), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8), repquota(8)
DIAGNOSTICS
Various messages about inaccessible files; self-explanatory.
BUGS
The format of the temporary file is inscruitable.