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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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edquota Edit User Quotas for UFS File System

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/edquota [-p proto-user] username...
/usr/sbin/edquota -t

Description

You can set up quotas to set hard and soft limits on the amount of disk space and number of inodes available to users. These quotas are automatically activated each time a file system is mounted. Only superuser can edit quotas.

Use the edquota editor to assign limits to specific users and groups. You can specify one or more users on the command line. For each user, edquota invokes the vi(1) editor or the editor specified by the EDITOR environment variable, creates a temporary file with an ASCII representation of the current disk quotas for that user for each mounted UFS file system that has a quotas file, and ...

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