edquota

Edit quotas for a user or group. By default it operates on all filesystems with quotas. Quota information is stored permanently in the quota.user and quota.group files in the root of the filesystem. More information: <https://manned.org/edquota>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/edquota.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install quota
Ubuntu
apt-get install quota
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S quota-tools
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install quota
Fedora
dnf install quota-1
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install quota
Raspbian
apt-get install quota
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/edquota

Edit quotas for a user or group. By default it operates on all filesystems with quotas. Quota information is stored permanently in the quota.user and quota.group files in the root of the filesystem. More information: <https://manned.org/edquota>.

  • Edit quota of the current user:
    edquota --user $(whoami)
  • Edit quota of a specific user:
    sudo edquota --user username
  • Edit quota for a group:
    sudo edquota --group group
  • Restrict operations to a given filesystem (by default edquota operates on all filesystems with quotas):
    sudo edquota --file-system filesystem
  • Edit the default grace period:
    sudo edquota -t
  • Duplicate a quota to other users:
    sudo edquota -p reference_user destination_user1 destination_user2

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