Re: help with user quotas

[Lucas Barbuto <lucas@qk.com.au>]

Hi David,

I know you've fixed your problems, but just for the sake of completeness
I thought I'd let you know how I fixed mine.  I got some help from a guy
called Jim Richardson who had posted on the list a while ago, this might
also help anyone else having quota problems in Woody.

The basic solution is to stick with old style (vfsold) qutoas and the
solution to getting it working goes as follows (thanks to Jim for this
step-by-step):

1) turn off any existing quotas with quotaoff

2) delete all quota files from each partition you're interested in (ie,
        'rm /home/*quota.user')

3) run 'quotacheck -av -Fvfsold' to create new user quota files

4) turn quotas on with 'quotaon -av'

5) check your quotas with 'repquota -a | less'

That (or something similar) worked for me.  I'm now just using the old
style quotas and they are working nicely.  I don't know what the
advantages of new style quotas are, but I'm pretty sure I don't need
them, so I'm happy to stick with what I've got.  HTH.

Regards,

Lucas