projects(5)

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✨ NAME ✨

okay so the page is literally about projects(5) 🎀 and it's all about projects 💖, a persistent project root definition 🌸

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

bestie, the /etc/projects file is giving mapping vibes 🦋 It links numeric project identifiers to the directories that are the roots of the quota tree 🌳 The format is super simple, no cap:

# comments are hash-prefixed
# ...
10:/export/cage
42:/var/log

so you write a number, a colon, then the directory path, and that's the whole deal 🫶 Lines starting with a hash are comments, so they're just notes for humans and you can add as many as you want ✨

the /etc/projects file is optional!! 😭 If you don't have it, you can still use xfs_quota(8) with the -p argument to specify a project root directly for each operation 💜

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

xfs_quota(8), xfsctl(3), projid(5) 🧚

projects(5) · File Formats Manual · the page you just read 💜 ngl the source and date are on the bottom line, iykyk 🙈 Stay iconic, bestie 👑✨

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