On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 04:06:52 -0000 "Banjo Donila" <ner0zero@mydestiny.net> wrote: > glarm <glarm@sucia.interisland.org> said: > > > Hello, > > I am trying to set up quota on RedHat 8.0 for my account then > > replicate it to the other 1500 accounts. Hwo do I go about doing > > this? I have added the following... > > > > LABEL=/ / ext3 > > defaults,usrquota > > 1 1 > > > > > > to my fstab. > > restarted. > > what else do I have to do? > > I have tried quotaon and quotacheck. with just errors... > > > > Thanks? > > > why would you want a quota on your root??? quotas are often used > to /home /var at this point if you place a quota on your root > everything from the top of the heirarchy until below will have limit > on the use of space. I suggest you re-partition your harddisk. I > prefer you have a seperate partition for the /home if you are into > giving out shells. It always depends on what the purpose of the box > would be regarding to partitions. If it for webspace a decent size of > /var would do. > > Have fun! hope this reaction would teach you few tips :) Let's assume you've added an add'l drive and it's mounted on /home. Why not use group quotas instead of usrquota for your 1500 users and add them to the group. edit your /etc/fstab with grpquota instead of usrquota, then it's 3 easy steps: mount -o remount,ro /home ###you have to unmount the partition, quotacheck -c /home ###creates auto.grpquota on the /home partition mount -o remount,rw /home ### remount the partition now you can use edquota -g 'groupname' to set up the controls. Kevin B -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
