projects(5) File Formats Manual projects(5)

# [NAME](#NAME)

projects - persistent project root definition

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

The */etc/projects* file provides a mapping between numeric project identifiers and those directories which are the roots of the quota tree. Its format is simply:

```


# comments are hash-prefixed
# ...
10:/export/cage
42:/var/log


```

The */etc/projects* file is optional, instead [**xfs\_quota**(8)](/man/enterprise-packages/xfsprogs-5.10/xfs_quota.8) can be used with the **-p** argument to specify a project root directly for each operation.

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

[**xfs\_quota**(8)](/man/enterprise-packages/xfsprogs-5.10/xfs_quota.8), [**xfsctl**(3)](/man/enterprise-packages/xfsprogs-5.10/xfsctl.3), [**projid**(5)](/man/enterprise-packages/xfsprogs-5.10/projid.5).

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Document: projects(5) from xfsprogs-5.10 5.10.0-r48 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfsprogs-dev