[ale] Quota setup

[Chris Ricker]

On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Mir Shafiqul Islam wrote:

> Hi I am trying to setup quota on my system, and have not been able to do
> it even though it looked simple enough. :=( 
> Here is what I am doing. The fils systems I want to enable quota on are
> marked rw,quota I have a quota.user file in the root directory of that
> filesystem. But I am not sure if I am manually supposed to add anything in
> that file or not. I used edquota to change the quota for the user. But
> when I check the users quota it says Disk quotas for user xyz (uid abc):none
> I read the man pages but still not sure what I am not doing right. Thanks
> for responses.

If you want to do user quotas, then you need to mount the file system in
question with a usrquota option (instead of just a quota option).  Try
changing your fstab and remounting /home (or wherever you're doing
quotas).  Then, run quotaon and quotacheck (you *shouldn't* need to, but
it can't hurt) and see what repquota/quota says then.

later,
chris

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