edquota
disk quota editor
TLDR
Edit quota of current user
$ edquota -u $(whoami)
Edit quota of specific user$ sudo edquota -u [username]
Edit quota for group$ sudo edquota -g [group]
Restrict to specific filesystem$ sudo edquota -f [filesystem]
Edit default grace period$ sudo edquota -t
Duplicate quota to other users$ sudo edquota -p [reference_user] [destination_user1] [destination_user2]
SYNOPSIS
edquota [options] name...
DESCRIPTION
edquota edits disk quotas for users or groups. It opens an editor showing current limits and usage, allowing modification of soft and hard limits.
Quota information is stored in quota.user and quota.group files at the filesystem root.
PARAMETERS
-u, --user
Edit user quota (default)-g, --group
Edit group quota-f, --file-system fs
Restrict to specific filesystem-t, --edit-period
Edit grace period-p, --prototype user
Copy quota from prototype user
CONFIGURATION
quota.user (at filesystem root)
Stores user quota limits and usage.quota.group (at filesystem root)
Stores group quota limits and usage./etc/fstab
Must have usrquota and/or grpquota mount options to enable quotas.
CAVEATS
Requires quota system enabled on filesystem. Root privileges needed to edit others' quotas. Uses $EDITOR or $VISUAL for editing.
