Disk Quota

[Nitin]

Muhammad Rizwan wrote:

>Hello All:
>
>I am hanging with disk quota issue and unable to solve it out,,,
>I am setting disk quota on '/' directory for each newly created group.
>now /etc/fstab file has this entry:
>LABEL=/                /                      ext2 defaults,grpquota 1 2
>
>after this running this command and its running fine with me
> mount -o remount / 
>
>then im running this:
>mount -o remount /
>and its giving me this error, quotacheck: Can't find filesystem to check
>or filesystem not mounted with quota option.
>
>and if i run this:
>quotacheck -avum /
>
>its giving me error like this:
>Bad number of arguments.
>Utility for checking and repairing quota files.
>quotacheck [-gucfinvdmMR] [-F <quota-format>] filesystem|-a
>
>and obviously quotaon -a is also not working for me,
>
>Can you pleae give me the steps how i can set quota for groups on /
>directory
>
>Thanks
>
>  
>
Instead of using mount command try rebooting the system to remount the / 
partition. You are running >>

quotacheck -avum /

Use -g option instead of -u as you are implementing group quotas only. Before running "quotacheck -avgm /" execute "
quotacheck -cg /" It will create quota file.

--Nitin