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1.1       root        1: .TH EDQUOTA 8 "18 July 1983"
                      2: .UC 4
                      3: .SH NAME
                      4: edquota \- edit user quotas
                      5: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      6: .B edquota
                      7: [
                      8: .B \-p
                      9: .I proto-user
                     10: ]
                     11: .IR users ...
                     12: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     13: .I Edquota
                     14: is a quota editor.  One or more users
                     15: may be specified on the command line.
                     16: For each user a temporary file is created
                     17: with an ASCII representation of the current
                     18: disc quotas for that user and an editor is
                     19: then invoked on the file.  The quotas may then
                     20: be modified, new quotas added, etc.  Upon
                     21: leaving the editor,
                     22: .I edquota
                     23: reads the temporary file and modifies the binary
                     24: quota files to reflect the changes made.
                     25: .PP
                     26: If the 
                     27: .B \-p
                     28: option is specified,
                     29: .I edquota
                     30: will duplicate the quotas of the prototypical user
                     31: specified for each user specified.  This is the normal
                     32: mechanism used to initialize quotas for groups
                     33: of users.
                     34: .PP
                     35: The editor invoked is 
                     36: .IR vi (1)
                     37: unless the environment variable EDITOR specifies otherwise.
                     38: .PP
                     39: Only the super-user may edit quotas.
                     40: .SH FILES
                     41: .DT
                     42: \fIquotas\fP           at the root of each file system with quotas
                     43: .br
                     44: /etc/fstab     to find file system names and locations
                     45: .SH SEE ALSO
                     46: quota(1), quota(2), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8), repquota(8)
                     47: .SH DIAGNOSTICS
                     48: Various messages about inaccessible files; self-explanatory.
                     49: .SH BUGS
                     50: The format of the temporary file is inscruitable.

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