[Linux] Quota ?

[Joshua Benjamin]

have youe done quotaon and quotacheck yet?

On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Jack Sasportas wrote:

> Here is what my fstab file looks like...
> /dev/sda3               /home                   ext2
> defaults,usrquota,grpquota        1 2
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Chris 'Chipper' Chiapusio wrote:
> 
> > have you modified your /etc/fstab to mount with user or group quotas?
> >
> > /dev/sda2               /                       ext2    defaults        1
> > 1
> > /dev/sda1               /boot                   ext2    defaults        1
> > 2
> > /dev/sdb1               /usr                    ext2    defaults        1
> > 2
> > /dev/sdb2               /var                    ext2    defaults        1
> > 2
> > /dev/sdd1               /home                   ext2    usrquota        1
> > 2
> >
> > you want usrquota and or grpquota
> >
> > Chipper
> >
> > On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Jack Sasportas wrote:
> >
> > >The below information from the link is pretty much what I have found in all
> > >the how-tos', but doesn't specify if I can pass *only* the soft & hard limits
> > >or if I have to provide the associated inodes, and blocks limits,
> > >in some readme's they even passit as soft=5M, and again that's isn't clear
> > >here.
> > >
> > >                          Quotas for user bob:
> > >                          /dev/hda2: blocks in use: 2594, limits (soft =
> > >5000, hard = 6500)
> > >                                   inodes in use: 356, limits (soft = 1000,
> > >hard = 1500)
> > >
> > >But the biggest problem is I can't get it to work....
> > >I see in the root directory in question a quota.user, and quota.group file, I
> > >edit a user with edquota -u jack1
> > >I paste in the above, and then do a quota jack1, and the result is:
> > >
> > >
> > >/home/mail/ quota jack1
> > >Disk quotas for user jack1 (uid 1206): none
> > >
> > >
> > >Also Should I see the old quota for jack1 when I edquota -u jack1 ?
> > >
> > >
> > >Thanks
> > >
> > >
> > >rscotka wrote:
> > >
> > >> Jack Sasportas wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > OK I have read about 80 man pages, and it's apparent my brain is not
> > >> > working.
> > >> > I already have quotas running, but now to impliment them I see there is
> > >> > no command line utility, is this right ?
> > >> >
> > >> > I just want to run something like quota joe harf=12M soft=10M and be
> > >> > done with it...
> > >> >
> > >> > Does anyone have any links that can show me how to accomplish this ?
> > >>
> > >> http://www.artsci.net/~johnm/docs/commands/quota.html
> > >>
> > >> russell scotka
> > >>
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