Recognize units at block limits by setquota

This patch allows to specify suffixes at block limits on setquota
command line. Binary units K, M, G, T are implemented. Numeric value
without suffix is equivatent to kibibytes as before. This is
complementary functionality to `quota -s'.

Signed-off-by: Petr Písař <ppisar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/setquota.8 b/setquota.8
index db9d054..e4511c4 100644
--- a/setquota.8
+++ b/setquota.8
@@ -182,6 +182,13 @@ Go through all filesystems with quota in
 .B /etc/mtab
 and perform setting.
 .PP
+.I block-softlimit
+and
+.I block-hardlimit
+are interpreted as multiples of kibibyte (1024 bytes) blocks by default.
+Symbols K, M, G, and T can be appended to numeric value to express kibibytes,
+mebibytes, gibibytes, and tebibytes.
+.PP
 To disable a quota, set the corresponding parameter to 0. To change quotas
 for several filesystems, invoke once for each filesystem.
 .PP