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



NAME
       convertquota - convert quota from old file format to new one

SYNOPSIS
       convertquota [ -ug ] -e filesystem

       convertquota [ -ug ] -f oldformat,newformat filesystem

DESCRIPTION
       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 filesys-
       tem.

       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  for-
       mat  introduces	Radix  Tree (a simple form of tree structure) to quota
       file.

OPTIONS
       -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
       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)

AUTHOR
       Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>




4th Berkeley Distribution	Fri Aug 20 1999		       CONVERTQUOTA(8)