quotatool

SYNOPSIS
       quotatool  [-u  uid  |  -g gid] [-b | -i] [-r | -l NUM | -q NUM] [-nvR]
       [-d] filesystem
       quotatool (-u | -g) (-b | -i) -t TIME [-nv] filesystem
       quotatool [-hV]

DESCRIPTION
       quotatool is a tool for manipulating filesystem quotas.   Depending  on
       the  commandline options given, it can set hard or soft limits on block
       and inode usage, set and reset grace periods, for both  users  and  (if
       your  system supports this) groups.  The filesystem to set the quota on
       is given as the first (and only) non-option element, and it  is  either
       the  block special file (i.e /dev/sda3) or the mount point (i.e. /home)
       for the filesystem.

OPTIONS
       -u [uid]
              Set user quotas

       -g [gid]
              Set group quotas

       uid and gid are either the numerical ID of the user or  group,  or  its
       name in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files.

       -b     Set block quotas [default]

       -i     Set inode quotas

       The -b and -i  options are persistent -- they stay in effect until they
       are overridden.

       -R     Only raise quotas, never lower. Makes sure  you  don't  acciden-
              tally lower quotas for a user/group.

       -t TIME
              Set  the  system-wide grace period to TIME.  TIME consists of an
              optional '-' or '+' character, a number, and optionally  one  of
              the  following modifiers: "seconds", "minutes", "hours", "days",
              "weeks", or "months".  Unique abbreviations (e.g. "s", "mo") are
              also accepted. The default is "seconds".  The argument should be
              preceded by -u|-g and -b|-i

       -r     Reset the grace period

       -l NUM Set hard limit to NUM

       -q NUM Set soft limit (quota) to NUM

       NUM consists of an optional '-' or '+' character, a number, and option-
       ally  one of the following modifiers: "MB", "kB", "bytes", or "blocks".
       Unique abbreviations are also accepted.  The default is "blocks"

              passed, grace is zero.

       -n     dry-run:  show  what  would have been done but don't change any-
              thing.  Use together with -v

       -v     Verbose output. Use twice or thrice for even more output (debug-
              ging)

       -h     Print a usage message to stdout and exit successfully

       -V     Print version information to stdout and exit successfully

FILESYSTEMS / FORMATS
       On Linux, quotatool works with both "old" and "new" + "generic" kernel-
       quota formats and also has support for quotas on XFS.

FILES
       quota.user , quota.group (linux)
       quotas (solaris, ...)

BUGS
       Calling quotatool with more than one -v option will cause a segfault on
       some  systems.  This will happen if vprintf (3) fails to check for NULL
       arguments.  GNU libc doesn't have this problem, solaris libc does.

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



version 1.4.11                    2002 - 2009                     QUOTATOOL(8)