quota

[Jeffrey A. St. Pierre]

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Ryan Golhar wrote:

> I have the same issue, however I just added the -f and run quotacheck
> once a week...
>
> Ryan
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: quota
>
>
> OK-
>
> Seeing how the RHEnterprise seems to skip this little tid-bit of
> info, can someone please fil me in.
>
> I am trying to run quotacheck on /var/spool/mail on a live
> system, via cron, as recomended.
>
> Unfortunately this is what happens:
>
> -bash </var/spool> sudo quotacheck -vug /var/spool/mail
> quotacheck: Quota for users is enabled on mountpoint
> /var/spool/mail so quotacheck might damage the file.
> Please turn quotas off or use -f to force checking.
>
> OK, so what is the propoer procedure for checking quotas on a
> live system.  I obviously need to check it while the system is
> live.and for /var/spool/mail I should probably do it once per
> night...
>
> should I just setup a script that does a qutoaoff, quotacheck
> -avgu, quotaon?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jeff

Well,

I haven't recieved much of an answer from anyone on 3 different 
lists.  I guess noone uses quota that much or they just force it.

Here's what I figured out though, basically write a script that
does this:

quotaoff -a
quotacheck -agum
quotaon -a

running by hand you can add (-v) for verbosity.
the (-m) on the quotacheck is nice, as it does not make the
filesystems read-only while checking.  People get angry when they
can't write to their home directory.  Even with quotas off the 
quotacheck remounts the filesystem ro unless you specify -m.

I assume this is the proper way to use quotacheck, despite not
much in the way of documentation for this.  Google shows many
people asking whether -f is bad, but noone has the answer.

Hope this helps somone, or prompts someone with real info to 
write in.

-Jeff