Hello.

I wanted to know if it's posible to import filesystem quotas. And if so, how can I do it?

I recently migrated a server, and presently the users don't have any quota limitations.

Thanks.

Regards,
Vilhena

Hi there,

I have never tried that before but I think the following steps might work:

1. Run quotacheck on the mounted partition. Suppose mounted partition is /opt/data then run: quotacheck -cvug /opt/data (This will create usr.quota and grp.quota files on that partition.

2. Make sure that you enable usrquota and grpquota option in /etc/fstab to reflect that.

3. If you have a backup of user and group quota files from old server then copy it over to /opt/data. This will replace the quota files there and I think it should take the values from old files which you have just placed in the mount point.

According to this http://linux.die.net/man/8/repquota repquota can report quotas set, which may be safer than copying over old files & certainly useful for comparing old vs new.

Note filenames

Thank you all for your replys.

I haven't tried your solutions because I have to bounce the server in order to activate the quota filesystems.
But tomorrow morning I'll do the reboot and i'll try what you've said.

Once again, thanks a lot!

Regards,
Vilhena