[Bug 278350] Handbook states admin does not need to run quotacheck when setting up UFS quotas

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=278350

            Bug ID: 278350
           Summary: Handbook states admin does not need to run quotacheck
                    when setting up UFS quotas
           Product: Documentation
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: Books & Articles
          Assignee: doc@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: jsmith@resonatingmedia.com

Problem description:

Chapter 20 of the Handbook, in the Quota section, the text states: "In the
normal course of operations, there should be no need to manually run
quotacheck(8), quotaon(8), or quotaoff(8). However, one should read these
manual pages to be familiar with their operation."

However, I just performed a fresh set up of quotas on a UFS filesystem running
FreeBSD 13.3. Without running "quotacheck" the quota system doesn't work,
declaring all users have a current usage/inode count of zero (0).


Suggested fix:

I think the Handbook text should be updated to say: "In the normal course of
operations, it is a good idea to run 'quotacheck -a' or 'quotacheck
/filesystem' after the reboot and prior to setting up user quotas. This will
initiate the filesystem usage information for each user/group prior to the
administrator running edquota."

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