Re: Problem with quotas in Mandrake 8.1...


Subject: Re: Problem with quotas in Mandrake 8.1...
From: civileme (civileme@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Thu Jan 17 2002 - 09:06:06 AKST


On Thursday 17 January 2002 07:25 am, Joshua J.Kugler wrote:
> This is a repost, since I didn't get any answers the first time around.
> Civileme? Can you help? :)
>
> Well, the 8.1 upgrade Saga continues....
>
> Today I rebooted the server (to make sure power management wasn't enabled).
>
> Since last boot, I had installed the updated Mandrake initscripts. On boot,
> it converted my version 1 quotas to version 2 quotas (without asking me,
> mind you). Now, when I run
>
> quotaon /home
>
> It gives me this error message:
>
> quotaon: using /home/quota.user on /dev/rd/c0d0p7: No such file or
> directory
>
> However, /home/aquota.user exists, but it seems it is not finding it. By
> the way, aquota.user is only 16K. Which seems odd for a system of 150+
> users; version 2 must be REALLY efficient.
>
> The odd thing is, when I run repquota, all the reported values are correct.
> If I rename aquota.user to aquota.user.bak, repquota gives:
>
> repquota: Can't get quotafile name.
> repquota: Not all specified mountpoints are using quota.
>
> Renaming it back to aquota.user makes it work.
>
> So, it seems quotaon isn't finding it. Any tips? Pointers? Things I'm
> missing?

Way outside my area of expertise...

Civileme



This archive was generated by hypermail 2a23 : Thu Jan 17 2002 - 08:53:51 AKST