quotacheck at startup is very long

Hi,

I have many users using quota disk space. When starting slackware, the "quotacheck" command is executed but is very long (about 10 minutes). Do you think I can use it in the background (with &) or must it be executed before every daemons start (nginx, php, proftpd, mariadb…)?

Have a nice day!

From my limited knowledge and testing (by trying to port Slackware rc scripts to s6-rc style service definition), yes you have to finish the quotacheck and run quotaon before doing anything to the storage drives to have an accurate readings for each user's quota. Although you can probably skip the quotacheck step if you are sure that nothing gets written to the storage drives when quota is turned off (i.e. after running quotaoff).

Thanks, good to know!

Pat, cron is starting before quotacheck. In my case, I have some daemons (third party) restarting by cron and writing data on quota partitions, others cron tasks make backup on the same quota partitions. Maybe quotacheck could be done earlier, before atd and crond are running?