convertquota(8)

NAME

   convertquota - convert quota from old file format to new one

SYNOPSIS

   convertquota [ -ug ] -e filesystem

   convertquota [ -ug ] -f oldformat,newformat filesystem

DESCRIPTION

   convertquota  converts  old  quota  files quota.user and quota.group to
   files aquota.user and aquota.group in  new  format  currently  used  by
   2.4.0-ac?  and  newer  or  by  SuSE  or  Red  Hat  Linux 2.4 kernels on
   filesystem.

   New file format allows using quotas for 32-bit  uids  /  gids,  setting
   quotas for root, accounting used space in bytes (and so allowing use of
   quotas in ReiserFS) and  it  is  also  architecture  independent.  This
   format introduces Radix Tree (a simple form of tree structure) to quota
   file.

OPTIONS

   -u, --user
          convert user quota file. This is the default.

   -g, --group
          convert group quota file.

   -f, --convert-format oldformat,newformat
          convert quota file from oldformat to newformat.

   -e, --convert-endian
          convert vfsv0 file format from big endian to little endian  (old
          kernels had a bug and did not store quota files in little endian
          format).

   -V, --version
          print version information.

FILES

   aquota.user         new user quota file

   aquota.group        new group quota file

SEE ALSO

   quota(1),   setquota(8),   edquota(8),    quotacheck(8),    quotaon(8),
   repquota(8)

AUTHOR

   Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

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