Sorry, forgot to mention that. I did edit my fstab. Added usrquota and grpquota to my /home.
----- Original Message ----- From: "ME" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 6:06 PM Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Quotas on RH7.2 > There is a quota how-to out there that walks you through this step byt > step. However, one thing you did not mention (may have been left off on > accident): > > Did you modify your /etc/fstab ? > Locate the mountpoint/device that you are trying to enable quotas for in > /etc/fstab. > Locate your quota files to the root of the mount point for the related > device that desires the quotas to be enabled. > (For example, if /home is mapped to /dev/hda5 or the other way around, > then look to that entry. if /home is not a separate partition/device, then > locate the device that it is a member of (eg, if /home is not a separate > device/mountpoint, your need to quota home would require use of locating > and modifying the entry for "/" in the fstab. > > Once you have located the device/mount-point then add the following to the > options/args: > usrquota,grpquota > here os an example for one I have used with just userquotas enabled: > > /dev/sda8 /home ext2 defaults,rw,usrquota 0 2 > > Once you have effected that change, you can try to enable quotas then you > could try to restart your system and see if that works, or try this: > > # mount /home -o remount,rw > > There are things that are stated in the howto on risks with users using > your system when quotas have not been checked and enabled. > > You may want to examine adding a script in you /etc/init.d that deal with > enabliong quotas and checking your files for each user on each reboot > before users are allowed to log in. this will significantly increase the > time your machine takes to boot, but is one way to be more certain the > information in your quotas db is accurate. (there are others.) > > For mine, it was simple as making my own script that included the > following for startup: > For a check when nobody is logged in: > /sbin/quotacheck > When I start up the quotas > /sbin/quotaon > When I turn off quotas > /sbin/quotaoff > For all that RPC stuff... > /usr/sbin/rpc.rquotad > > I dont use RH, so they may have their own scripts installed when you add > quota support. > > -ME > > On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Justin Howell wrote: > > Hey list, > > I'm trying to turn on quotas and gosh darn it isn't working. I went ahead and followed the steps I found online for recompiling the kernel to make sure quotas were enabled, so as far as I can tell quotas are enabled in the kernel, and I put the aquota.user and aquota.group files in the root of the filesystem I want to quota (/home). I just touched them and chmod'ed them to 600. So when I reboot the machine or run quotaon, it gives me the following error: > > > > > > quotaon: using /home/aquota.group on /dev/hda5: Invalid argument > > quotaon: using /home/aquota.user on /dev/hda5: Invalid argument > > > > Now, the arguments I gave quotaon where just -avug, the usual ones. Anyone run into a problem like this? I'm stumped. > > > > Possibily pertinent info: > > Redhat 7.2 > > linux-2.4.7-10 kernel (custom - quotas enabled - not really custom now is it) > > quota-3.01pre9-3 > > ext3 filesystem (shouldn't matter, should it?) > > > > Thanks for any help. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
