Re: Quota on xfs vfsroot

[Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxx>]

Jan Engelhardt (on Sat, 14 Jan 2006 10:35:34 +0100 (MET)) wrote:
>
>>> the xfs_quota manpage says that one needs to use the "root-flags=" boot 
>>> parameter to enable quota for the root filesystem, but I do not see a 
>>> matching __setup() definition anywhere in the fs/xfs/ folder. So, how do I 
>>> have quota activated then?
>>
>>init/do_mounts.c:__setup("rootflags=", root_data_setup);
>>It is a general boot line flag, not xfs specific.
>
>Ah, thank you.
>Weird manpage program wrapped rootflags into "root-\nflags" at EOL, sigh.

One of the many reasons that man pages should have hyphenation turned
off.  In current *roff, the command is '.nh'.  Some older versions of
*roff used '.hy off' or '.hy 0'.