SETQUOTA(8) System Manager's Manual SETQUOTA(8)

# [NAME](#NAME)

setquota - set disk quotas

# [SYNOPSIS](#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](#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**](#r,)

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**](#m,)

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***](#F,)

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**](#u,)

Set user quotas for named user. This is the default.

[**-g, --group**](#g,)

Set group quotas for named group.

[**-P, --project**](#P,)

Set project quotas for named project.

[**-p, --prototype=*protoname***](#p,)

Use quota settings of user, group or project *protoname* to set the quota for the named user, group or project.

[**--always-resolve**](#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**](#b,)

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**](#c,)

If parsing of an input line in batch mode fails, continue with processing the next line.

[**-t, --edit-period**](#t,)

Set grace times for users/groups/projects. Times **block-grace** and **inode-grace** are specified in seconds.

[**-T, --edit-times**](#T,)

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**](#a,)

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](#FILES)

[**aquota.user or aquota.group**](#aquota.user)

quota file at the filesystem root (version 2 quota, non-XFS filesystems)

[**quota.user or quota.group**](#quota.user)

quota file at the filesystem root (version 1 quota, non-XFS filesystems)

**/etc/mtab**

mounted filesystem table

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

[**edquota**(8)](/man/os/quota-tools/edquota.8), [**quota**(1)](/man/os/quota-tools/quota.1), [**quotactl**(2)](/man/os/quota-tools/quotactl.2), [**quotacheck**(8)](/man/os/quota-tools/quotacheck.8), [**quotaon**(8)](/man/os/quota-tools/quotaon.8), [**repquota**(8)](/man/os/quota-tools/repquota.8)

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Document: setquota(8) from quota-tools 4.11-r3 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://git.code.sf.net/p/linuxquota/code