Sample quota wanted

tommytomato · 09-04-2004, 03:10 AM

Hi all i thnk i have mine going No errors on boot, apart from one right at the end of the boot up were all the green ok's are, some thing about events message i think.

can some one give me a example of a quota -u please.

I have set mine to 50MB but its still letting me upload more and i'm not sure if i have it right.

here is my quota

Code:

[root@rockinghamgateway root]# quota -u tommy
Disk quotas for user tommy (uid 500):
     Filesystem  blocks   quota   limit   grace   files   quota   limit   grace
      /dev/hda2  134728       0       0               9   50000   50000
[root@rockinghamgateway root]#

I real dont want to give up on this one, its driving me nuts

TT

Berhanie · 09-04-2004, 01:52 PM

Looks like you set yourself a limit of 50000 files, not 50MB. Go into edquota and change the soft and hard limits for blocks. By the way, from your other posts, I see that you created the quota files yourself. You could have just let the system do it for you (the option "usrquota" in fstab will trigger that when you boot).

trickykid · 09-04-2004, 06:12 PM

Yes, say for example if I wanted to set my own limit to myself on my system to 50megs, it would or should look like this:

Code:

Disk quotas for user drew (uid 101):
  Filesystem                   blocks       soft       hard     inodes     soft     hard
  /dev/hda8                    139352      50000      50000      10        0          0

Though at times you should always make the soft limit a little smaller than the hard.. that way usually on most systems the user is notified that they are reaching their limit.

tommytomato · 09-05-2004, 01:12 AM

Thanks guys

I went to edit tommy quota and it wouldn't let me do it

Do i have to be in init 1 mode to do it ?

I was able to add another user quota ok and the FTP limits work ok.

TT

Berhanie · 09-05-2004, 10:01 AM

To edit your quota, you need to do this as root:

Code:

edquota -u tommy

and change the limits as shown above (only, a 50MB limit won't do, since you're already using around 135MB). You do not need to go to runlevel 1 for this.

tommytomato · 09-05-2004, 09:42 PM

yer the 135 file was a test

here is the error i get

Code:

[root@rockinghamgateway root]# edquota -u tommy
edquota: Bad format:
  /dev/hda2                       740      50000      50000         86

edquota: Can't read quotas from file.
[root@rockinghamgateway root]#

as i said i can create it ok, but not edit it.

TT