On 12/10/21 6:15 PM, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 02:21:34PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
The units used to set limits are never specified in the xfs_quota
man page, and in fact for block limits, the standard k/m/g/...
units are accepted. Document all of this.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
man/man8/xfs_quota.8 | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/man/man8/xfs_quota.8 b/man/man8/xfs_quota.8
index 59e603f..f841e3f 100644
--- a/man/man8/xfs_quota.8
+++ b/man/man8/xfs_quota.8
@@ -446,7 +446,13 @@ option reports state on all filesystems and not just the current path.
.I name
.br
Set quota block limits (bhard/bsoft), inode count limits (ihard/isoft)
-and/or realtime block limits (rtbhard/rtbsoft). The
+and/or realtime block limits (rtbhard/rtbsoft) to N, where N is a bare
What is a 'bare' number?
How about (shortened so I don't have to retype the whole thing):
"Set quota block limits...to N. For block limits, N is a number
with a s/b/k/m/g/t/p/e multiplication suffix..."
it's also allowed w/o the suffix. so I propose ...
Set quota block limits (bhard/bsoft), inode count limits (ihard/isoft)
+and/or realtime block limits (rtbhard/rtbsoft) to N, where N is a
number representing bytes or inodes.
+For block limits, a number with a s/b/k/m/g/t/p/e multiplication suffix
+as described in
+.BR mkfs.xfs (8)
+is also accepted.
For inode limits, no suffixes are allowed.
(I thought about adding suffix support to inodes but meh, that's confusing,
what is 1 block's worth of inodes?)
"For inode limits, N is a bare number; no suffixes are allowed."
?
--D
+number representing bytes or inodes.
+For block limits, a number with a s/b/k/m/g/t/p/e multiplication suffix
+as described in
+.BR mkfs.xfs (8)
+is also accepted.
+The
.B \-d
option (defaults) can be used to set the default value
that will be used, otherwise a specific
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1.8.3.1
