Quota help

[Pete Nesbitt]

On July 2, 2004 02:51 pm, Eucke Warren wrote:
> Hello all....
>
> I really feel foolish.  I am playing around with a new configuration of RH9
> and I cannot seem to get quota's functioning properly.  I simplified the
> partitioning from how I have done it in the past.  This is the current
> partition layout:
>
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used     Available Use%     Mounted on
> /dev/sda2              7637400   2769036   4480396  39%             /
> /dev/sda1                101089        9464        86406  10%
> /boot
> none                       127624             0       127624   0%
> /dev/shm
>
> Here is the fstab entry:
>
> LABEL=/                 /                       ext3
> defaults,usrquota,grpquota        1 1
> LABEL=/boot         /boot                 ext3    defaults        1 2
> none                        /dev/pts             devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0
> 0 none                        /proc                 proc    defaults       
> 0 0
> none                        /dev/shm            tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> /dev/sda3                 swap                 swap    defaults        0 0
> /dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom        iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> /dev/fd0                   /mnt/floppy        auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0
> 0
>
> I put the quota.* files in / yet when I run quotaon -av or when I boot the
> server I get the following error message:
>
> [root at euckevmrh root]# quotaon -av
> quotaon: Cannot find quota file on / [/dev/sda2] to turn quotas on/off.
> quotaon: Cannot find quota file on / [/dev/sda2] to turn quotas on/off.
>
> My eye's are getting blurry from chasing an bunch of other things down.  I
> have Googled for this but keep hitting dead ends and am missing something
> simple...suggestions?  Thanks in advance guys!
>
> -Eucke


Hi Eucke,
I think you need to be using aquota.user & aquota.group (depending on what 
verson of RH your using).

Also, just to be sure, you did "remount" the quota'd fs's.
'mount -o remount /'
then (with aquota.* in place), run
'quotacheck /'  

Hope that helps.
-- 
Pete Nesbitt, rhce