Quota help - Solved

[Eucke Warren]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eucke Warren" <euckew at sierraelectronics.com>
To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: Quota help


>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Pete Nesbitt" <pete at linux1.ca>
> To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 3:10 PM
> Subject: Re: Quota help
>
> > Hi Eucke,
> > I think you need to be using aquota.user & aquota.group (depending on
what
> > verson of RH your using).
> >
> > Also, just to be sure, you did "remount" the quota'd fs's.
> > 'mount -o remount /'
> > then (with aquota.* in place), run
> > 'quotacheck /'
> >
> > Hope that helps.
> > -- 
> > Pete Nesbitt, rhce
>
> No luck Pete.  With the aquota* files added at the / directory and even
with
> a reboot the quota file is not being found. Note the error
>
> [root at euckevmrh /]# quotaon -av
> quotaon: Cannot find quota file on / [/dev/sda2] to turn quotas on/off.
> quotaon: Cannot find quota file on / [/dev/sda2] to turn quotas on/off.
>
> I get the impression that the quota module is looking for the quota* files
> in a location other than / even though / has a direct mount relation to
> /dev/sda2.  In the past this was easy as I had a separate partition for
/var
> and /home.  I got tired of having to adjust partition sizes and so chose
> just on massive partition.  Any other suggestions...this is really
puzzling
> me (like that all that hard....)
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> -Eucke

Found a fix finally and thought I'd share.  Found it of all places on the
Tonga Institute of Higher Education.

http://www.tihe.org/solvedproblems/quota.php

Basically running quotacheck -acugvm makes it all happen and everything
seems happy now!

Thanks again Pete!

-Eucke