On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 23:40:55 -0500 (CDT), Anand Kumar Kalyanasundaram
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to enable userquota on my /home partition. I
> added the following script to a file in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d
> directory:
>
> # Check quota and then turn quota on.
> if [ -x /usr/sbin/quotacheck ]
> then
> echo "Checking quotas. This may take some time."
> /usr/sbin/quotacheck -avug
> echo " Done."
> fi
>
> if [ -x /usr/sbin/quotaon ]
> then
> echo "Turning on quota."
> /usr/sbin/quotaon -avug
> fi
>
> I get the following error:
>
> Jul 1 23:10:49 localhost quotaon: quotaon: using
> /home/aquota.user on /dev/hda6: Invalid argument
> Jul 1 23:10:49 localhost rc.sysinit: Enabling local
> filesystem quotas: failed Jul 1 23:10:50 localhost
> quotaon: quotaon: using /home/aquota.user on /dev/hda6:
> Invalid argument
>
> I get this "Invalid argument" error even when I try to
> enable userquotas using webmin.
>
> Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong here ?
Is your /home partition ReiserFS? ReiserFS needs to be patched to support
quotas.
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