On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Tim Champ wrote: > Hello all. > > Quick (hopefully) question - the man page for "quota" says it isn't > recommended to do a "-f" when specifying a user. Due to some issues > that would take a while to explain, we will need to fix quite a few > quotas on users as we "xfer" them to a new system. > > Is this an outdated statement in the man page? If not, what is the > risk? I'd hate to have to run "quota -f" across a server of many > thousand users just to fix one. I use "quota -f user.foo" all the time to fix quotes on mailboxes restored from backups. I've never had any errors or problems, so I don't know why the manpage gives that recommendation. Andy ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
