Re: quota question (repost)
Vinay R <[email protected]>
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hi, I am using the quota in / root directory.... when i type quotacheck -vug / it gives me an error with quotacheck: cannot get the quotafile name for /dev/hda2 where in i have created a file in root directory touch quota.user & quota.group file still the same error is coming i am using Redhat Linux 8.0 can somebody help me plz... i have tried creating aquota.user & quota.group still doesn't work..... --- Vinay R Antonio Galea <[email protected]> wrote:Apparently the answer I've posted yesterday got lost... or maybe I've missed it somehow. So here it is again, apologies if you receive it twice. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:53:38 +0100 (CET) From: Antonio Galea To: [email protected] Subject: Re: quota question Steps to follow for enabling quota: 1. create the data files: touch /var/aquota.user touch /var/aquota.group 2. add the option 'quota' to /var in /etc/fstab, for instance change LABEL=/var /var ext3 defaults 1 2 to LABEL=/var /var ext3 defaults,quota 1 2 3. remount the filesystem and scan it for quota usage: mount -o remount /var quotacheck -vug /var 4. enable quota: quotaon /var At boot, the system runs quotacheck and quotaon on every partition marked with the quota option in /etc/fstab/. To report about quota usage, use 'repquota'; to actually set the limits, use 'setquota'; to turn off quota, 'quotaoff'. That's all there is to it... RAID makes no difference at all. Ant9000 -- _____________________________________________________________________________ Dr. Antonio Galea N e t W i s e http://www.netwise.it Sviluppo tecnico Tecnologie per il Web Tel 0461.421016 Fax 0461.426021 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft says it will run in 16 megs. But they have a different meaning for the word "run" than I do. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- _______________________________________________ enigma-list mailing list [email protected] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/enigma-list --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop!