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Re: reenabling quota after xfs_repair

To: Robert Sander <robert.sander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: reenabling quota after xfs_repair
From: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 09:30:00 -0500
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: Message from Robert Sander <robert.sander@epigenomics.com> of "Wed, 17 Oct 2001 13:24:37 +0200." <20011017132437.A17663@epigenomics.de>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi!
> 
> I had an xfs_repair run on a filesystem with quota enabled and now
> all quota info is lost. Thi case is stated in the manual page, and
> it says that this info is restored when checking manually for it.
> But how is this done? quotacheck just skips the XFS filesystems.
> The manual page also says that after remounting the filesystem
> the usage info will be recalculated, but that was also without
> effect.
> quota tools are of version 3.00pre01

XFS quota works differently, if you mount with quota options and the
on disk data says quotas were not used during the last mount then the
kernel code inside xfs will scan the filesystem and rebuild the quota
information automatically - there should be a log message to this
effect.

Steve

p.s. does this mean you are over your problem with the root inode going
missing?



> 
> Greetings
> -- 
> Robert Sander
> Computer Scientist                                       Epigenomics AG
> Bioinformatics R&D        www.epigenomics.com         Kastanienallee 24
> +493024345330                                              10435 Berlin



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