Re: What is the proper way to unlink/free quota inodes?

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 03:50:18PM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> What is the proper way to unlink quota inodes (and hence free the
> space they use) when you no longer want to mess with quotas?
> 
> I tried deleting all quotas for all users to see if it would do this
> automatically but it does not.  Rather, I used xfs_db to null the
> values in "sb 0" and then had repair fix the dangling link...
> 
> ... surely there is a better way?
> 

quotaoff(1) does this, in particular "-x delete".  This issues the
Q_XQUOTARM quotactl(2) command which XFS acts on to free the inode.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan