Re: quota question (repost)

hey its working now. .. while creating a user we hv to use this command 
# adduser -d /usr test coz i hd put the user & group quota in this. so its working fine now ... thanx for all the help.
 LDC - Alexis Cala Martinez <[email protected]> wrote:i don't know if somebody had said this but you have to check if kernel 
supports quotas.

bye

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Keith Mastin wrote:

> > hi,
> > I am using the quota in / root directory....
> 
> Strongly advise against this. Quota is used to limit the amount of space
> that system users can access. Non-root system users do not belong in the /
> directory for any reason. If you insist on running quota on the /
> filesystem, be prepared to do a complete re-install to get things back in
> working order someday.
> 
> > 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
> 
> Sounds like you didn't patch the kernel. I answered this yesterday.
> 
> 

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Saludos,
Alexis Cala

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