On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:41:20PM -0500, David Smith wrote: > Hello > > I have a couple of questions. > > First, I want to configure quotas for the users in my redhat 9 box. I've > done it before, and it was quite simple, I just add the usrquota param to > the entry of the home directory (partition) in the fstab file > > LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults,usrquota 1 2 > > and then remount the partition and create de /home/aquota.user file and > define the quotas for each user. > > The problem now is that I want to configure quotas but I have a redhat with > no home partition, just de / partition. Here's de 'df' command result > > /dev/hda2 38961432 2074296 34907928 6% / > /dev/hda1 101089 9275 86595 10% /boot > none 111496 0 111496 0% /dev/shm > > And the contents on the fstab file > > LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults > 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/hda3 swap swap defaults > 0 0 > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 > noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto > noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 > > > So I tried to configure the quotas, and because there's no /home partition I > used the / partition. I modified the fstab file like this > > LABEL=/ / ext3 > defaults,usrquota 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/hda3 swap swap defaults > 0 0 > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 > noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto > noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 > > Remount the partition and create de /aquota.user. Then I created the quotas > for users using 'edquota -u user' and it looks like it's ok. But the user > can pass the quota (soft and hard too) with no problems or reports. I guess > ir's the user directory is in the /home directory, and the quotas defined > are in the / directory. > > But How can I define quotas if I have these configuration with no > partitions????. I think it can be possible but I tried and could no get it, > and I really don't want to re partition the system, even more since I'm not > a linux guru, I'm almost a newbie. ;) > > Thanx if anybody can help me with this. I would really appreciated. > > > My next question is about user names. I want to have in my machine user > names like "name.lastname" or something similar including a dot in the user > name. But the standard instalation of shrike don't let me add users with > dots in their login. > > [root@machine root]# adduser name.lastname > adduser: invalid user name 'name.lastname' > > Is it possible to change some configuration, or override the username rules > to let me create usernames like the one I mentioned ?? Including a dot in > it ??? > > Thanx again and sorry about the length of this mail, but I hope you can help > me and help others since I could not find information or talks about it in > the archives. > > Thanx again and again > > bye > > David ! ---end quoted text--- I was under the impression you had to setup quotas on a partition, not a directory. Not sure though. jay -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
