The edquota command puts you in an editor, which enables you to add and/or modify quotas via this temporary file.

# edquota jane

Disk quotas for user jane (uid 1003):
Filesystem         blocks       soft       hard     inodes     soft     hard
 /dev/hdc1           4100          0          0          6        0        0

Similar to the output from the quota command above, the blocks and inodes columns in this temporary file refer to the disk space and number of files jane is currently using. You cannot modify the number of blocks or inodes; any attempt to do so will be summarily discarded by the system. The soft and hard columns show jane's quota, which we can see is currently unlimited (zero indicates no quota).