Re: Quota help

From: Pete Nesbitt (pete_at_linux1.ca)
Date: 07/03/04

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Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 15:10:48 -0700

    On July 2, 2004 02:51 pm, Eucke Warren wrote:
    > Hello all....
    >
    > I really feel foolish. I am playing around with a new configuration of RH9
    > and I cannot seem to get quota's functioning properly. I simplified the
    > partitioning from how I have done it in the past. This is the current
    > partition layout:
    >
    > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
    > /dev/sda2 7637400 2769036 4480396 39% /
    > /dev/sda1 101089 9464 86406 10%
    > /boot
    > none 127624 0 127624 0%
    > /dev/shm
    >
    > Here is the fstab entry:
    >
    > LABEL=/ / ext3
    > defaults,usrquota,grpquota 1 1
    > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
    > none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0
    > 0 none /proc proc defaults
    > 0 0
    > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
    > /dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
    > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
    > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0
    > 0
    >
    > I put the quota.* files in / yet when I run quotaon -av or when I boot the
    > server I get the following error message:
    >
    > [root@euckevmrh root]# quotaon -av
    > quotaon: Cannot find quota file on / [/dev/sda2] to turn quotas on/off.
    > quotaon: Cannot find quota file on / [/dev/sda2] to turn quotas on/off.
    >
    > My eye's are getting blurry from chasing an bunch of other things down. I
    > have Googled for this but keep hitting dead ends and am missing something
    > simple...suggestions? Thanks in advance guys!
    >
    > -Eucke

    Hi Eucke,
    I think you need to be using aquota.user & aquota.group (depending on what
    verson of RH your using).

    Also, just to be sure, you did "remount" the quota'd fs's.
    'mount -o remount /'
    then (with aquota.* in place), run
    'quotacheck /'

    Hope that helps. 

    -- 
Pete Nesbitt, rhce
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