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Re: quotaon fails - "Quota format not supported in kernel"



On 03.07.06 07:56, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> I'm attempting to enable quotas on a Sarge system running a custom
> 2.6.17.3 kernel.
> 
> # grep -i quota /boot/config-`uname -r`
> CONFIG_QUOTA=y
> CONFIG_QUOTACTL=y
> 
> # quotaon -uv / 
> quotaon: using //aquota.user on /dev/hda3 [/]: No such process
> quotaon: Quota format not supported in kernel.

how did you create the /aquota.user file? The quota file format is probably
not supported on that filesystem. see manpage of "convertquota" command,
you can use it to convert to proper file format. Or, you can just purge it
and run "quotacheck" on it.
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