On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Ryan Golhar wrote:
I have the same issue, however I just added the -f and run quotacheck once a week...
Ryan
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OK-
Seeing how the RHEnterprise seems to skip this little tid-bit of info, can someone please fil me in.
I am trying to run quotacheck on /var/spool/mail on a live system, via cron, as recomended.
Unfortunately this is what happens:
-bash </var/spool> sudo quotacheck -vug /var/spool/mail quotacheck: Quota for users is enabled on mountpoint /var/spool/mail so quotacheck might damage the file. Please turn quotas off or use -f to force checking.
OK, so what is the propoer procedure for checking quotas on a live system. I obviously need to check it while the system is live.and for /var/spool/mail I should probably do it once per night...
should I just setup a script that does a qutoaoff, quotacheck -avgu, quotaon?
Thanks in advance,
Jeff
Well,
I haven't recieved much of an answer from anyone on 3 different lists. I guess noone uses quota that much or they just force it.
Here's what I figured out though, basically write a script that does this:
quotaoff -a quotacheck -agum quotaon -a
running by hand you can add (-v) for verbosity.
the (-m) on the quotacheck is nice, as it does not make the
filesystems read-only while checking. People get angry when they
can't write to their home directory. Even with quotas off the quotacheck remounts the filesystem ro unless you specify -m.
I assume this is the proper way to use quotacheck, despite not much in the way of documentation for this. Google shows many people asking whether -f is bad, but noone has the answer.
Hope this helps somone, or prompts someone with real info to write in.
-Jeff
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