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Workspace Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)
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Created on Jul 27, 2026

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Add option to `mmedquota -d -u <user>` to specify file system and fileset

Currently the `mmedquota -d -u <user>` command will revert all quotas owned by the user back to configured file system level default quotas or per fileset default user quota settings, across all file systems in the cluster.  Today if a user has an explicit quota for file system A, fileset 1, and you want to revert the same user quotas back to the default file system quota level for file system B in the same cluster, the `mmedquota -d -u <user>` command will clear the explicit quota on file system A, and this could result in the user going over quota and even hitting the HARD QUOTA in file system A.  This would halt all I/O for the user if this happens and impact running applications.

Please add the ability to specify the file system and fileset that you want to refer the user quotas back to the default quota configuration.

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