Please could we stop this thread here. I think most people would agree it is
completely off-topic...
Tim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ben Kennish
> Sent: 02 April 2001 13:56
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Quotas - Offtopic i suppose
>
>
> I thought I'd recompile the kernel for fun today (upgrading to
> latest stable
> release) and also because I don't know if the problems Im sometimes having
> with quotas are due to the fact I never did recompile.
>
> Everything seemed to go OK until I tried to access the network. No show
> there. Even pinging an IP address gives connect : Network is unreachable.
>
> The odd thing is, I did keep a copy of my old kernel and this still works
> OK. I did include the module that supports my NIC when doing 'make
> menuconfig'.
>
> Any help would be great. Thanks,
>
> ----
> Ben Kennish
> email | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nigel Marett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 10:22 AM
> Subject: Re: Quotas
>
>
> > Morning Ben,
> >
> > I dont believe that quotas are enabled as default in a Redhat
> install, and
> > requires a kernel recompile - for information on how to do so, refer to
> the
> > quotashowto that is included with FreeVSD docs.
> >
> > Recompiling a kernel is not as frightening as it sounds, and there is a
> lot
> > of information and howtos out there to help, the other
> excellent thing is
> > that you can add the newly compiled kernel image to Lilo, and
> not have to
> > remove your old kernel, if you do have a problem when you
> reboot, you can
> > reboot the machine using the old kernel, I just love to have a
> safe escape
> > route!! =>
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Nigel.
> >
> >
> > On Thursday 29 March 2001 4:47 pm, you wrote:
> > > OK now the 'X' has stopped spinning and I don't get any errors.
> > >
> > > But doing quotastats on a VS gives ...
> > >
> > > =================+========+=============+============
> > > User name | Uid | Limit | Current use
> > > =================+========+=============+============
> > > mysql| 1004| 0K| 372K
> > > ftp| 1003| 0K| 0K
> > > web| 1002| 0K| 44K
> > > mail| 1001| 0K| 0K
> > > admin| 1000| 0K| 80080K
> > > =================+========+=============+============
> > > Allocated/used | | 0K| 80496K
> > > Max/available | | 0K| -80496K
> > > =================+========+=============+============
> > >
> > > Which doesn't much like quotas are enabled
> > > (I created this VS with vsdadm vs_create localhost vsone 192.168.0.66
> > > vsone.fubra 200 10 to limit usage to 10MB)
> > >
> > > Any ideas? Thanks in advance,
> > >
> > > ----
> > > Ben Kennish
> > > email | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Ben Kennish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 3:32 PM
> > > Subject: Quotas
> > >
> > > > Last time I tried to recompile the RH6.2 kernel I buggered it all up
> and
> > >
> > > had
> > >
> > > > to reinstall.
> > > >
> > > > So anyway, I've noticed that creating a VS with a quota and running
> > > > vsd-vsbatch.pl doesn't give the error mentionned in the FAQ so I
> thought
> > > > maybe I already have quota support compiled in?
> > > >
> > > > I've changed the following in my /etc/fstab...
> > > >
> > > > /dev/hda9 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
> > > >
> > > > to
> > > >
> > > > /dev/hda9 /home ext2 defaults,usrquota,grpquota
> 1
> > >
> > > 2
> > >
> > > > and then ran
> > > > "quotacheck -avug"
> > > >
> > > > But it's still saying...
> > > > "Scanning dev/hda9 [home] X.." with the X spinning around.
> > > >
> > > > Theres no grinding noise from the HD but this partition is
> 25GB large.
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas? Thanks.
> > > >
> > > > ----
> > > > Ben Kennish
> > > >
> > > > Software Engineer
> > > > Fubra Limited
> > > >
> > > > web | www.fubra.net
> > > > email | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > phone | +44 (0)870 1222 600
> > > > fax | +44 (0)870 1222 699
