trying to build QUOTA

waelaltaqi · 02-18-2006, 06:08 PM

after partitioning a new /dev/hda5 with ext3 file system, which was mounted as /home , iwas trying to create quota limits for users and groups.i did the following steps and i'm getting some erros :

1- fstab line :

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/dev/hda5       /home    ext3    defaults,usrquota,grpquota       1   1

2-

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touch /home/quota.user /home/quota.group

3-

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quotecheck -augv

4- when i'm trying to issue

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 quotaon -a

, i'm getting the follwoing error

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quota.user and quota.group are not supported by the kernal...

what should i do at that point ???

velda.ebel · 03-01-2006, 08:50 AM

You named them wrong (if you are using RH).
They should be aquota.user and aquota.group
those are the names system expects