Due historical reasons, and to be compliant with the generic quota command,
xfs_quota does not output any information when there is no used percentage of
the available quota. Such behavior might make users confused, so, I believe it's
better to have the reasons for such behavior better documented.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
man/man8/xfs_quota.8 | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/man/man8/xfs_quota.8 b/man/man8/xfs_quota.8
index 9b555e9..ef90bfb 100644
--- a/man/man8/xfs_quota.8
+++ b/man/man8/xfs_quota.8
@@ -197,7 +197,9 @@ option reports the numeric IDs rather than the name. The
.B \-N
option omits the header. The
.B \-v
-option outputs verbose information. The
+option outputs verbose information, displaying quota values even when there is
+no used space. Such behavior was chosen to be compliant with the 'quota'
command
+and for historical reasons. The
.B \-f
option sends the output to
.I file
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2.1.0
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