Hi all,

I've been trying to set quota on root ("/") file system. Kernel has
quota support and quota tools are installed.
Here what I've done:

Created aquota.user and aquota.group files:
# touch /aquota.user
# touch /aquota.group

I've set the permisinons:
# chmod 600 /aquota.user
# chmod 600 /aquota.group

Changed fstab:
/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults,usrquota,grpquota 1 1

After making these changes I've rebooted the machine, but during
boot procesess threre were some error messages complaining about
that it cannot find the quota files on that filesystem. Then I've tried to
do it with "quotacheck -avug", but that time i got the following
error messages:

quotacheck: WARNING - Quotafile //aquota.user was probably truncated. Can't save quota settings...
quotacheck: Cannot remount filesystem mounted on / read-only so counted values might not be right.
Please stop all programs writing to filesystem or use -m flag to force checking.

As i understand from errors above and from some readings, quotacheck tries to mount
filesystem readonly, since it is "/" filesystem, it cannout remount it readonly.
In such situation what can i do? I don't have any partitions on disk to set quota,
i mean i had do set quota on "/". By the way if i use "-m" flag with quotacheck
does it make harm to "/" filesytem?

Thank you.
-ozgun.

I am not sure of this but I dont think you can set quota on /

You have a /home dir and this is the best dir for quotas.
YOu could have created those files in /home dir .

Also what is the need for a quota on / ?

Cheers
Z

First of all thanks for the reply.

The guy who had installed the server didn't make any partition except /boot partition, and we need to set quota for users, system is a production sytem and also i cannot
add an extra harddisk because the second harddisk will be used to make an array.

Do you know is it possible to boot machine with another harddisk that linux is installed on, and set quotas, or is it possibe to boot machine with a live linux cd and set quotas on "/"?

Thank you.
-ozgun.

Another thing I've realized is that when booting "quoatacheck -nug /" is run.
Is it dangerous replace this with "quoatcheck -avugm", I mean does "-m" paramater
couse a problem?

Thank you.
-ozgun.

Can you revert back the system and do this :


# touch /aquota.user
# touch /aquota.group


# chmod 600 /aquota.user
# chmod 600 /aquota.group


/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults,usrquota,grpquota 1 1 in /etc/fstab

#mount -o remount /dev/hda2

#/sbin/quotacheck -m /

#/sbin/quotaon -f /

#/usr/sbin/setquota -u username 900000 1000000 0 0 -a


Reboot the system

Type
repquota -a
see if the quota is enabled.

Sorry I dont have a pc nearby so couldnt test it out.
But sure that it`ll work.
After it works try for group quota.

Cheers
Z