Hello everyone.

I have a server running Slackware 11. The /home has been copied from an older server running an ancient version of Slackware with kernel 2.2. The problem is that the quota system has changed in the meantime and this is causing some bugs (notably aberrant disk usage measurements for some users, resulting in locked accounts).

I've searched the web and found out the command convertquota to upgrade quota files to the new version. Unfortunately, the use of

results in the following error message:

I have of course checked permissions on /home/quota.user (that is 751, with file belonging to root), not to mention that the command was launched as root.

I would really be grateful if anyone could help me.

Note: I guess that the next step might be to find an oportunity to switch the server off and to reboot it from a CD so that the filesystem won't be in use ?

Okay, I have apparently solved my problem, sort of... As I suspected, the convertquota function was unable to operate on a quota file under use. So, I took advantage of the first opportunity to mount the filesystem without quotas. It was not enough, because

still returned an error explaining that the users quota file could not be read.

I finally deleted it and remounted the system with quotas activated in fstab. A new file was created and I manually fixed all quotas again. It took some time, but everything seems to work fine (that is better than before).