Enabling quotas on an already existing file system

[John O'Loughlin]

Actually ignore this, the -m option tells it not to remount read only.

John

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, John O'Loughlin wrote:

>
> Beware that quotacheck remounts the file system read only, so you don't want 
> to do this when you have any users logged on.
>
> John
>
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Padiyath Sreekumaran wrote:
>
>>
>>  Hello,
>>   OS : RedHat release 4
>>
>>   I have the following situation. At present I have a file system
>>   Which is mounted without quota option and users are using it.
>>   (/etc/fstab content:
>>   /dev/vg00/ftp_data /data xfs  defaults  1 2)
>>
>>    I want to implement userquota on this file system. I would like to
>> know the following:
>> 
>> 1. Can I implement quota on this file system?
>> 2. If I can, Can I do the following:
>>
>>    a. unmount /data
>>    b. mount with following command:
>>        /dev/vg00/ftp_data /data xfs  defaults,usrquota  1 2
>>
>>    c.  quotacheck -avum
>>
>>    d.  quotaon -a
>>
>>    d.  then I will define the quota with "edquota username /data"
>> 
>> 
>>
>>     I donot know whether I have missed anything. I cannot make any
>>     test on this production system.
>>
>>     Regards
>>      Kumar
>> 
>> 
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