Update user quota limit

[peterchu]

we have 350 users in the system , now I want to set the size quota limit for all users , each user will allow 5M hard and 10M soft quota limit , I know it can update by the command "edquota" , could suggest what is the convenience way to update all users except run 350 times of edquota ? thx .

[Rajeev Shukla]

Hi,

I would suggest to edit the quota for one user and then duplicate using a script to all the rest 349 users. ( That is only 2 commands)

Cheers
Rajeev

[peterchu]

thx reply , could suggest which file should be duplicate ? thx

[Ravi_8]

Hi

cat /etc/passwd |awk -F: '{print $1}' > /tmp/users

for i in 'cat /tmp/users'
do
edquota $i
done

read the manual pages of edquota (man edquota) before performing this opeartion

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Perterchu,

Should it not be 5 MB softlimit and 10 MB hardlimit ?

A user will get a warning as the softlimit is reached.

Hope this helps,
Robert-Jan

[peterchu]

thx reply ,

I hv generated a file called /tmp/users
#vi /tmp/users
user1
user2

then run the script

for i in 'cat /tmp/users'
do
edquota $i
done

but it report the error :

edquota: User cat doesn't exist.

could suggest what is wrong , thx in advance.

[Robert-Jan Goossens · Accepted solution]

# cat /tmp/users | while read LINE
do
edquota $LINE
done

[peterchu]

thx goo's reply ,

I tried your method , but still have problem , after run the script , it pop the error below , could suggest what is wrong ? thx

"/var/tmp/EdP.a24823" 1 line, 75 characters
how


~
ks (soft = 100000, hard = 100000) inodes (soft = 0, hard = 0)
~
~
~
~
~

Input read error

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi,

in your script above, you should use:
for i in `cat /tmp/users`

instead of:
for i in 'cat /tmp/users'

regards
Yogeeraj

[peterchu]

your script is right, i can run edquota for each user , but I also need to edit 350 times the user quota files , can I just edit one file and then duplicate it to all users ? thx.

[Ranjith_5]

Hi Peter,

can you try the following?

cat /etc/passwd |awk -F: '{print $1}' > /tmp/quota

for i in `cat /tmp/quota`
do
edquota -p $i
done


regards,
Syam

[peterchu]

it is OK , thx