I'm trying to set up quotas on a LM8.1 server ( yes i know it needs
upgrading, which is in progress but till then its still being used, and as
usual they want it now ) using kernel 2.4.18-8.2mdk.

I have quota-3.01-0.1mdk.ia64.rpm installed, and i have fstab set up.

I can run quotacheck, which tells me it has updated and replaced the
aquota.user and aquota.group files.

I can add users with edquota username, and i can run repquota -av which
gives me a listing of all the quota accounts i have added with their
individual settings.

my problem now is if i run quotaon /spare1, /spare1 is the partition i'm
using for quotas, i get the following

# quotaon /spare1
quotaon: quotactl() on /dev/sdb8: Invalid argument
quotaon: quotactl() on /dev/sdb8: Invalid argument

and because quotaon comes back with an error, its not turning quotas on adn
it doesn't update the userquota data when they add/ remove files.

if i run 

quotaon -avug

i go back to the command line with no verbose or errors, but again checking
user quotas, add/removing files does not change their quota used values.

I've googled all night for info on the invalid argument, but can't find
anything specific to my problem, i get lots of quotactl() man pages but
there a bit beyond telling me where to look

Had anybody any ideas they can pass to me.

Many thanks 

Ken

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