On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Chris Adams<cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Once upon a time, Aldo Foot <lunixer@xxxxxxxxx> said: >> I cannot believe that it's not possible to enable nfs quotas *on fedora* at all. >> I guess this is not done frequently enough to catch people's attention. > > With NFS, quotas are set up on the server's underlying filesystem. You > then run rpc.rquotad on the server (which the Fedora nfs init script > starts by default). > > I just set up quotas on my home NFS server (which is still running F9). > I had to reboot to get them enabled on the filesystem (probably could > have unmounted/remounted and then restarted NFS services, but this box > reboots in under a minute anyway). I can see them with the quota > command on the NFS client, and they are enforced. > > If you want to edit quotas remotely, you have to use the -r option to > edquota. This also requires adding the -S option to the rpc.rquotad > call (in /etc/sysconfig/nfs on Fedora), but only works in rpc.rquotad > was compiled with that support; the version in F9 and F10 was not, but > F11 includes this support. > > None of the other quota commands (such as quotacheck, quotaon, etc.) > work on the NFS client, because those operate directly on the local > filesystem only. > > All of this works fine for me between an F9 NFS server and an F11 NFS > client, except for the rpc.rquotad -S option (which should work when I > get the NFS server upgraded). _______ Interesting. >From what you say, it appears the only difference is that I have a CentOS server and an F11 client. So far, I've only used remount to enable the quotas on the server. I'll see what reboot does. I'll try the 'edquota -r'. I'm don't have access to the computers at this time. I'll try next week and post back Thanks for taking the time. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
