Re: help with user quotas
i have the same problem and i think it's a problem of version: quota
version 1 uses quota.user, version 2 uses aquota.user.
don't we have quotatools2 on Debian?
David Wilk wrote:
>Howdy folks,
>
>I'm setting up a Deb woody server and want quota support on /home just
>in case we need to get serious. I have quota support in the kernel and
>the following in /etc/fstab:
>
>/dev/sda6 /home ext3 defaults,data=journal,usrquota 0
>2
>
>I run #quotacheck -c /home
>
>and get this:
>-rw------- 1 root staff 7168 Aug 28 12:11 aquota.user
>
>in /home.
>
>However, when I run: #quotaon /home I get this:
>
>quotaon: using /home/quota.user on /dev/sda6 [/home]: Invalid argument
>quotaon: Maybe create new quota files with quotacheck(8)?
>
>hmmm. ???
>
>at first I thought it was due to quotaon not wanting to use version2
>quota files, so I had quotacheck create one of those (quota.user) and i
>got the exact same message. I can't believe I can't get something this
>simple to work. any ideas? ext3 is mounted data=journal, could that be
>it?
>
>thanks,
>Dave
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