Dear All,
I m using redhat 7.2 i want to enable disk quota on /var partition i have just modified /etc/fstab file and define usrquota,grpquota there and reboot machine when i run the command equota username then its give me following errors

No filesystems with quota detected.

what does it mean. How cold i enable quota restriction on var partion please help me


Regards,

John Lee

hello,
i think you may need to compile a new kernel, enable quotas - if you are using the default RH kernel I think there were issues.

Dear All,
How could i create aquota.user file i just created it by
touch aquota.user

then i run quotaon /var command but this give me this error
quotaon: using /var/aquota.user on /dev/sdc3: Invalid argument
I have checked it with kernel recompilation i have enabled quota option in kernel that is already enabled but still unbale to implement quota restriction also i am getting this error in my /var/log/boot.log file

rc.sysinit: Enabling local filesystem quotas: failed


please help me i m using redhat 7.2

Regards

John Lee

you have to add a entry in your /etc/fstab


here is a good how to.

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Quota.html

Dear all,
I have enabled in /etc/fstab file usrquota,grpquota

but still getting error


No file system dectect with quota support.
i need help for setting quota in kernel 2.4


Regards,

johnlee

I have had this problem 2 days ago, the correct procedure is:
Kernel must be compiled with quota support ( I think that it ' s configured with redhat)
Create file aquota.user in the root directory (for example /var), make the file rw only for root, (chmod 600), modify etc/fstab for enable quota (example of fstab /dev/hda2 /var ext2 defaults,usrquota 1 1), reboot pc, the kernel give an error invalid argument. At this point you must make: quotacheck -vum /var this permit you to write the binary file aquota.user with information in /var. The parameter -m i don't sure that is ok, but if you
don' t put the quotacheck not work becouse /var is in use. After that you must edit aquota.user with edquota <user> /var, save it (esc:wq) and finally enable quota in filesystem: quotaon -av. Next reboot quota will be enable by default. Good luck, i hope that you have understand my englis.

great post fosky.

I've been reading up on quotas for about 2 days trying to figure out what I have to do before I do it w/ RH7.2.

Here is the skinny on my configureation and what worked for me (after following fosky's post):

Read:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Quota.html#toc5
Everyone refers people to this page, but it does not seem to target Red Hat users.

Read:
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/solrhe/Secur...1.3/quota.html
very good documentation - specific to Red Hat

So I tried that, but had some issues. Bottom line, here are the summarized steps:

//
// RedHat 7.2 - 2.4.7-10smb
// no kernel upgrade required
// no patch required
// hard drives mounted using ext3
// ext3 & quotas should "work", I saw some posts regarding
// issues, we'll see....
//
// basic flow following doc #2

//make your changes by adding the
//usrquota,grpquota labels
vim /etc/fstab
touch /home/aquota.group
touch /home/aquota.user
touch /home/quota.group
touch /home/quota.user
chmod 660 /home/*quota.*

//
// now fosky's advice
// additional commands because 2 different mounts
// hdbx & hdby
// and because of groups & users quotas

/sbin/quotacheck -vum /home
/sbin/quotacheck -gvm /home
/sbin/quotacheck -uvm /usr
/sbin/quotacheck -gvm /usr

// now reboot

//all should work now.
quota -g staff
quota -u smegol


hope that helps someone.

-bock out