Re: ACL and Quota

[Norman Zhang <nzhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nathan Scott wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 01:39:26PM -0800, Norman Zhang wrote:
>
> > I'm using XFS with Quota on a Samba server. I have mirrored the folders 
> > to a different server for high availability. I would like to copy the 
> > quota for the XFS partitions to the new server. May I ask where are 
> > quota files stored on XFS partitions?
>
> Nowhere that they can directly accessed.  If the new server is
> running XFS, you should just mount with quota enabled, and copy

My new server is already running XFS and quota. I rsync'd files over but 
quota is not reserved. I had to manually enter the quota restrictions 
in. May I ask what do you mean by copy away?

> away.  If its not XFS, you'll want to dump the quota info to a
> file and restore it using setquota -- see xfsdq(8) and xfsrq(8)
> in the xfsdump package which will do that for you.

Thanks. I will try xfsdq and xfsrq.

Regards,
Norman