CONVERTQUOTA(8)

💅 CONVERTQUOTA ✨

okay bestie, so this one is a manual page for convertquota, and it lives in section 8 (System Manager's Manual energy, we love a sysadmin era) 👑

🌸 NAME 🌸

convertquota — convert quota from old file format to new one 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

convertquota [ -ug ] -e filesystem

convertquota [ -ug ] -f oldformat,newformat filesystem

like. that's the whole vibe. two whole ways to call her 💅

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so convertquota converts old quota files quota.user and quota.group into files aquota.user and aquota.group in the new format currently used by 2.4.0-ac? and newer, or by SuSE or Red Hat Linux 2.4 kernels, on filesystem. glow-up, honestly 🧚

and the new file format is lowkey iconic because it lets you:

• use quotas for 32-bit uids / gids 🔥
• set quotas for root (yes queen, even root) 👑
• account used space in bytes — which is the whole reason you can use quotas in ReiserFS 🍓
• and it's architecture independent too, so she travels 🌈

oh and also? this format introduces a Radix Tree (a simple form of tree structure) into the quota file 🌳 not me getting emotional over data structures.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -u, --user — convert the user quota file. this is the default, so if you don't say anything she just assumes user, periodt ✨
• -g, --group — convert the group quota file 🫶
• -f, --convert-format oldformat,newformat — convert the quota file from oldformat to newformat. you literally hand her both, comma and all 💅
• -e, --convert-endian — convert the vfsv0 file format from big endian to little endian. why? because old kernels had a bug and did not store quota files in little endian format 😭 they were going through it fr fr
• -V, --version — print version information. short king of an option 👑

🦋 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)

the whole quota friend group honestly, go say hi 🌸

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> — thank you for your service, legend 🫡💖

ngl if you're converting quota files, back them up first. that's not in this manpage, that's just me caring about you 🙈

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this beauty came to you via the 4th Berkeley Distribution, dated Fri Aug 20 1999 — yes, 1999, she's vintage, she's an icon, she was doing this before you were born 💅✨ no cap. mwah 🎀