Re: reinitializing quota on xfs

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> Hi,
>> 
>> for some strange reason, `quota -v` showed an impossible number in the 
>> inodes (files) field, something that resembled 2^64 - n, n={1..100}. I do 
>
>It would be really good if we could get a test case for this; it
>gets reported once in a blue moon, so there does seem to be some
>latent issue there...
>
I'll try figure out a testcase.

>> not know how it happened, but I wanted to reinitialize the quota. Though, 
>> how does one do that with XFS? (Since it's different from the vfsv0 quota 
>> architecture.)
>
>See xfs_quota(8) from recent versions of xfsprogs, or in older
>ones theres doco in /usr/share/doc/xfsprogs*/README.quota.

I can't find it in xfsprogs-2.7.11/man/man8/xfs_admin.8 ... or it's too 
well hidden.



Jan Engelhardt
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