FC2: error while getting quota on a Solaris server

[Rick Stevens]

David Jansen wrote:
> Is there a way to get FC2 to understand disk quota on a nfs mounted disk
> served by a Solaris server? FC1 and RH7-9 were doing just fine, but now
> I get:
> $ quota -v
> quota: Error while getting quota from noordzee:/export/home for 531: Invalid argument
> Disk quotas for user jansen (uid 531): 
>      Filesystem  blocks   quota   limit   grace   files   quota   limit   grace
>       /dev/hda7       0       0       0               0       0       0        
>   schelde:/data 12896576       0       0           52815       0       0       
> 
> server noordzee is the Solaris machine which serves our home disk,
> server schelde is a Linux (FC1) system from which I have a disk mounted. 
> This also shows that nfs quota is working in FC2, but there must be some
> compatibility issue between FC2 and Solaris.
> 
> The fstab entry is:
> noordzee:/export/home   /home                   nfs     defaults,nfsvers=3,hard,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192      0 0
> 
> but the same thing happens with just 'defaults' or defaults,nfsvers=3
> 
> Does anyone have a solution for this situation?

Stupid question, but is rpc.rquotad running on your FC2 box?
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