On July 2, 2004 03:33 pm, Eucke Warren wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Pete Nesbitt" <pete@xxxxxxxxx> > To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 3:10 PM > Subject: Re: Quota help > > > 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 > > No luck Pete. With the aquota* files added at the / directory and even > with a reboot the quota file is not being found. Note the error > > [root@euckevmrh /]# 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. > > I get the impression that the quota module is looking for the quota* files > in a location other than / even though / has a direct mount relation to > /dev/sda2. In the past this was easy as I had a separate partition for > /var and /home. I got tired of having to adjust partition sizes and so > chose just on massive partition. Any other suggestions...this is really > puzzling me (like that all that hard....) > > Thanks! > > > -Eucke I just tried it on my system, and it was a little different. Here is what i used: # touch /aquota.user # quotacheck -m / # edquota pete the main thing is the -m, to force updating of / You need quota.* for quota ver 1 and aquota.* for quota ver 2. What does 'cat /etc/mtab' look like? -- Pete Nesbitt, rhce -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
