edquota
is a quota editor. One or more users or groups may be specified on the command
line. For each user or group a temporary file is created with an
representation of the current disk quotas for that user or group 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.
The editor invoked is
vi (1)
unless the
EDITOR
environment variable specifies otherwise.
Only the super-user may edit quotas. (In order for quotas to be
established on a file system, the root
directory of the file system must
contain a file, owned by root, called
quota.user
or
quota.group .
See
quotaon (8)
for details.)