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edquota: command not found

by Deepika

The “edquota” command in Linux is used to edit user or group quota information on a specified file system. Quotas are used to limit the amount of file system space a user or group can consume. The “edquota” command opens a text editor, typically vi, which allows the user to edit the quota information for a specified user or group. This command is typically used by system administrators to manage the disk usage on a Linux system.

If you encounter the below error while running the command edquota:

edquota: command not found

you may try installing the below package as per your choice of distribution:

Distribution Command
Debian apt-get install quota
Ubuntu apt-get install quota
Arch Linux pacman -S quota-tools
Kali Linux apt-get install quota
Fedora dnf install quota-1
Raspbian apt-get install quota

edquota Command Examples

1. Edit quota of the current user:

# edquota --user $(whoami)

2. Edit quota of a specific user:

# sudo edquota --user username

3. Edit quota for a group:

# sudo edquota --group group

4. Restrict operations to a given filesystem (by default edquota operates on all filesystems with quotas):

# sudo edquota --file-system filesystem

5. Edit the default grace period:

# sudo edquota -t

6. Duplicate a quota to other users:

# sudo edquota -p reference_user destination_user1 destination_user2

Filed Under: Linux

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