Hey there,
In keeping with the idea of good archives, here is the solution for
building quotas:
Quoted From Mister Buster on 2/2/2001 Located on linux.samba newsgroup
Make sure you have quota compiled in your kernel.
- touch quota.user (for user quota) or quota.group (for group quota) on
the root of mounted fs (/home)
- add usrquota (or grpquota) to the fs entry in /etc/fstab (man fstab)
- umount /home
- mount /home
- quotaon /home
- man edquota
This is fine and dandy and does work. Problem is twofold. First, the
version of quota shipped with RH 6.2 and 7.0 (One I have tested) doesn't
work for anything. The version I tested and seems to work fine (RedHat
take notice) quota-3.00-4.tar.gz gotten from
ftp://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/pub/local/jack/quota/utils/quota-3.00-4.tar.gz
fixes a quota database format problem according to Honza (Found on
Google). Second problem is that when RedHat put out 2.2.16-3(RH6.2
Update) and 2.2.16-22 (Release) kernels, they compiled them against
non-original headers, so when you try to compile quota, it fails.
I fixed this by removing /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm and
relinked them by entering in
ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux /usr/include/linux
ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm /usr/include/asm
Once this was done, quota compiled, installed and ran like a dream. I
then turned quotas on without any messages, set up a dummy quota for a
dummy user and ran a test. It proceeded to dump "You have exceeded your
disk limit".
Needless to say, after a few days of trying, it works like a charm.
Hope this helps someone else in the future.
Kevin Wood
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