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NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | FILES | SEE ALSO | AUTHOR | COLOPHON 

CONVERTQUOTA(8)          System Manager's Manual         CONVERTQUOTA(8)

NAME         top

       convertquota - convert quota from old file format to new one

SYNOPSIS         top

       convertquota [ -ug ] -e filesystem

       convertquota [ -ug ] -f oldformat,newformat filesystem

DESCRIPTION         top

       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         top

       -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         top

       aquota.user
              new user quota file

       aquota.group
              new group quota file

SEE ALSO         top

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

AUTHOR         top

       Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the quota (Linux Diskquota Tools) project.
       Information about the project can be found at [unknown -- if you
       know, please contact man-pages@man7.org] It is not known how to
       report bugs for this man page; if you know, please send a mail to
       man-pages@man7.org.  This page was obtained from the project's
       upstream Git repository
       ⟨git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/quota/quota-tools.git⟩ on
       2024-06-14.  (At that time, the date of the most recent commit
       that was found in the repository was 2024-05-07.)  If you
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4th Berkeley Distribution    Fri Aug 20 1999             CONVERTQUOTA(8)

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