Have you tried deleting the quota.user file, and trying again?
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Kevin Wood wrote:
> I have this line in the system and it still gives me the error. Any other
> ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> Kevin
>
>
> On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Mike Burger wrote:
>
> > Make sure that your fstab has a line like this that refers to /dev/sda8:
> >
> > /dev/sda8 /<mountpoint> ext2 defaults,usrquota 1 2
> >
> > The "usrquota" is the important part there. If you haven't included the
> > usrquota parameter, you can't actually enforce user quotas on the file
> > system in question.
> >
> > On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Kevin Wood wrote:
> >
> > > Hey there guys,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to set up a server with quotas and I am running into a problem.
> > > I have gone through dejanews and pulled down the directions for running
> > > quotas and got all my files and options in place. The problem is that
> > > when I reboot the machine or try to turn quotas on I receive the message:
> > >
> > > quotaon: using /home/quota.user on /dev/sda8: Invalid Argument
> > >
> > > I then returned to dejanews to find out what might be up. Seems that a
> > > lot of people are having the same problem, but I don't see any responses.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any ideas on what to do or what might be wrong?
> > >
> > > I was running into trouble under Kernel 2.4.2-ac7, but I have since
> > > reloaded the machine with a completely stock RH70 and the same problem
> > > still exists.
> > >
> > > I have also gone as far as trying to get a new version of quota and that
> > > doesn't seem to do it either.
> > >
> > > Whatever the case, if anyone has any tips or pointers, that would be
> > > great.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Kevin Wood
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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