setquota command fails with Numerical result out of range error.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Cannot set quota above 4 Gb.
 # setquota -F rpc -r -u user1 100M 200M 0 0 /mnt/server
  setquota: Trying to set quota usage out of range supported by quota format on server:/mnt/export.
  setquota: Cannot write quota for 501 on server:/mnt/export: Numerical result out of range

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
    • seen on quota-4.01-17.el7 and below.

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