edquota command fails when specifying more than 4G blocks.

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • edquota command failed with following errors:
# edquota -u test  ( ====> specify 8589934592 as the value of hard limit )
edquota: Cannot set quota for user 1001 from kernel on /dev/mapper/mpathcp1: Numerical result out of range
edquota: Cannot write quota for 1001 on /dev/mapper/mpathcp1: Numerical result out of range

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • quota-3.17-16.el6.x86_64

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