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:
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< snip >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....
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....
Yes I know what the -c option does . I have read the man page . The only problem i had on that subject was how to create them for the very first time
Take a look at "man
quotacheck" for more details....
OK.
And yes, unless the whole procedure has been followed, there is no quota limiting....
Robert , i looked at the man pages and tried to understand what they were saying . I have managed to enable quotas on my /home filesystem ( different filesystem than / "root filesystem" ) but that was not exactly because i fully understood what i was doing . From the quidelines that you kindly provided it seems that whatever i did needed a bit tweaking .
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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.
Well i didn't knew about this possibillity ( the remount option ) , so yes i rebooted .
3) quotacheck -cM "filesystem"
Here i didn't use the -M option , i used the -c option though 4) quotaon "filesystem"
That was done by the boot proccess .
5) edquota "username" or look up setquota
Everything fine here .
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......
:)) My current installation is the first one which has different partitions for /home , /tmp , /var . Agreed for everything else .
HTH,
? what do you mean by that .
--Rob
Kostas
