quotatool

Commandline utility for filesystem quotas on Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and AIX

Set 50Gb soft and hard diskusage limits for user johan on filesystem /home

quotatool -u johan -b -q 50G -l 50G /home

See more examples below

Installation

Linux

quotatool is already in your package manager:

Ubuntu, Mint, Debian: sudo apt-get install quotatool
Fedora, RedHat, CentOS yum install quotatool
Gentoo Linux emerge quotatool
openSUSE: See instructions here: http://quotatool.ekenberg.se/index.php?node=download

Mac OS X

MacPorts sudo port sync; sudo port install quotatool
Homebrew brew update; brew install quotatool

Install from source code

./configure
make
sudo make install
(use gmake on *BSD)

Usage

quotatool { -u uid | -g gid } [ options ... ] filesystem
quotatool { -u | -g } { -i | -b } -t time filesystem
quotatool { -u uid | -g gid } -r filesystem
quotatool { -u uid | -g gid } -d filesystem

The actual arguments accepted depends on your system. Solaris, for example, doesn't support group quotas, so the -g option is useless. If your getopt() doesn't support optional arguments, then you always need to pass an argument to -u and -g.

Arguments and Options

   -u uid  username or uid.
   -g gid  groupname or gid.
      	   See examples below how to handle non-existent uid/gid

   -b      set block limits
   -i      set inode limits

   -q n    set soft limit to n blocks/inodes
   -l n    set hard limit to n blocks/inodes

   quotatool accepts the units Kb, Mb, Gb, Tb, bytes and blocks
   to modify limit arguments. Units are base 2 for blocks (1k = 1024)
   and base 10 for inodes (1k = 1000).
   Use +/- to raise/lower quota by the specified amount.
   n can be integer or floating point
   See examples below.

   -R      Raise only - makes sure you don't accidentally lower quotas for a user/group

   -t      time set global grace period to time.
           The time parameter consists of an optional
           '+' or '-' modifier, a  number, and one of:
           'sec', 'min', 'hour', 'day', 'week', and
           'month'.  If a +/- modifier is present, the
           current quota will be increased/reduced by
           the amount specified

   -r      restart grace period for uid or gid

   -h      print a usage message

   -v      verbose mode -- print status messages during execution
           use this twice for even more information

   -n      do everything except set the quota.  useful with -v
           to see what is supposed to happen

   -V      show version

   filesystem is either device name (eg /dev/sda1) or mountpoint (eg /home)

Examples

Set soft block limit to 800Mb, hard block limit to 1.2 Gb for user mpg4 on /home:

quotatool -u mpg4 -b -q 800M -l 1.2G /home

Raise soft block limit by 100M for non-existent gid 12345 on /dev/loop3:

quotatool -g :12345 -b -q +100M /dev/loop3

Set soft inode limit to 1.8k (1800), hard inode limit to 2000 for user johan on /var:

quotatool -u johan -i -q 1.8K -l 2000 /var

Set the global block grace period to one week on /home:

quotatool -u -b -t "1 week" /home

Restart inode grace period for user johan on root filesystem:

quotatool -u johan -i -r /

Notes

Grace periods are set on a "global per quotatype and filesystem" basis only. Each quotatype (usrquota / grpquota) on each filesystem has two grace periods

one for block limits and one for inode limits. It is not possible to set different grace periods for users on the same filesystem.

BSD-note: According to 'man quotactl', global grace periods should be supported on BSD. quotatool on BSD does the right thing, which can be confirmed with 'edquota -t'. However, the value doesn't seem to be used by the system when usage passes a soft limit.

Using non-existent uids/gids like ":12345" can be useful when configuring quotas on a mounted filesystem which is a separate system in it self, like when preparing an install image or repairing a filesystem from another installation.
Limit arguments can be specified in several ways, these are all equivalent: 1M 1m 1Mb 1 "Mb"
Use +/- to raise/lower quotas relative to current limits
Use -v (or -v -v) to see verbose/debug info when running commands

Platforms and Filesystems

quotatool currently builds and works well on:

-- Linux -- Quota formats: old, vfsv0, vfsv1 and "generic" Filesystems: ext2, ext3, ext4, ReiserFS and XFS

-- Mac OS X --

-- BSD -- FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD (ufs, ffs)

-- Solaris --

-- AIX --

Missing your favorite *nix OS? Missing a feature, or found a bug? Feel free to add an Issue on https://github.com/ekenberg/quotatool

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