On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 19:13, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: > Robert Locke wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 07:56, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: > > > >>I have a couple of questions regarding Disk Quotas . > >> > >>The First Question is , what is really happening when > >>During the boot proccess the message "Enabling File System Quotas" > >>is printed ? > > > > > > if [ -x /sbin/quotaon ]; then > > action $"Enabling local filesystem quotas: " /sbin/quotaon -aug > > fi > > If i understand this well when the condition -x /sbin/quotaon is > satisfied ( when really ?) it tries to execute the /sbin/quotaon -aug > command Testing that the file /sbin/quotaon exists, then execute the command.... > > > > >>Because in a Fedora Core 1 full installation , the only thing that is > >>not happening is Enabling File system Quotas . That is repquota on any > >>File system that i have will report , that Quotas are off ? So what is > >>really going on there ? > > > > > > It is turning on quotas on filesystems where quotas are enabled.... > > Well that means exactly NOWHERE !!! UNLESS the superuser has > > a) modified the /etc/fstab > b) placed proper files ( aquota.user for users , aquota.group for > group quotas ) Take another look at the procedure below.... The "quotacheck" command with a -c option, will create the aquota files.... Take a look at "man quotacheck" for more details.... And yes, unless the whole procedure has been followed, there is no quota limiting.... > > > > > > >>The Second Question would be who can someone create the > >>aquota.user and aquota.group files for the very first time ? > >> > >>#requota -c will create the aquota.user file regardless if such > >>a file previously existed , is corrupted or whatever happens to it. > >> > >>Finally the last question is how can someone enable file system > >>Quotas on the root file system ? > >> > >>Am using Fedora Core 1 with kernel 2.4.26 > > > > > > Let's recap, step-by-step: > > > > 1) vi /etc/fstab > > Modify the "filesystem" options to include either "usrquota" or > > "grpquota" (usually has defaults). > > 2) mount -o remount "filesystem" > Am a little bit scared on running this command for the root > filesystem . Of course your other choice is to reboot.... :-) But the remount option has worked pretty good. > > 3) quotacheck -cM "filesystem" > > 4) quotaon "filesystem" > > 5) edquota "username" or look up setquota > > Yes, except my little remark on step 2 everything looks fine . > Thanks > > > Kind Regards, > Kostas > One last thought for you.... I generally do not find much need to set a quota on the "/" filesystem. On a truly multi-user system (implying a need for quotas), I ensure that the regular user writable filesystems do not include "/". I generally have a separate /home, /tmp, etc.... I can then place a quota on those filesystems only. I also never put a limit on the user root...... HTH, --Rob
