Hi.

I am trying to set up disk quotas on RH9. I have added 'usrquota' to /home' in /etc/fstab and then created aquota.user and aquota.group in /home. I rebooted and in the start up messages it told me that it can't find find quota file on /home, so I began searching the net. Someone suggested updating the kernel so I have updated it to 2.4.20-31.9 and I still get the same message. Someone else suggested running the 'sbin/quotacheck -ug /home' command but when I do it says:

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

I am now stuck so any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks
David

PS I am quite new to Linux so I may have missed something simple, although I have been following instructions from 2 books.

(has to be run as root)

touch /home/aquota.user
touch /home/aquota.group

Add usrquota,grpquota to /home mount in /etc/fstab file.

reboot

quotacheck -avug

edquota and then apply necessary quota

quotaon

Thank you for your reply linuxxed.

I followed your instructions but the same thing happens. When I tried the quotaon command it says it cannot find the quotafile, but I have checked and aquota.user and aquota.group are both in /home.