On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, tom minchin wrote:

I second Tom's suggestion. It works 100% of times (and I have done it
more than once or twice. 

A couple of additions to Tom's:

> 1) make sure quota RPM is installed
> 2) edit /etc/fstab and change the partition where you want quotas, eg:
> 
> /dev/sdb5       /home/users     ext2     defaults,usrquota 1 2

The above shouls read:

/dev/sdb5       /home/users     ext2     defaults          1 2

> 
>       change to:
> 
> /dev/sdb5       /home/users     ext2     defaults,usrquota 1 2

or even:

/dev/sdb5       /home/users     ext2    defaults,usrquota,groupquota 1 2

> 
>       (this will give you per-user quotas)
> 
> 3) touch /home/users/quota.user
>    touch /home/users/quota.group
> 4) chmod 600 /home/users/quota.*
> 5) reboot
> OR
> 5) remount /home/users
> 6)  /sbin/quotacheck -v -R -a
> 
> Then you can edquota to your hearts content.

and of course edquota -g

Hossein



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