Why does repquota fails with an error message "Quota file is probably corrupted" ?

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Issue

Why does repquota fails with an error message "Quota file is probably corrupted" ?

 repquota: Illegal reference (6 >= 6) in user quota file on /dev/sdd2. Quota file is probably corrupted.
 Please run quotacheck(8) and try again.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • quota-3.17-14.el6

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