Thank you Henrik,

You fixed my problem!

...Paul


Henrik Schmiediche wrote:

>       Hello,
>the following procedure to set up quotas worked for me. Maybe it will help
>you.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>      - Henrik
>
># 0) kernel must be compiled with quota support... the standard redhat
>kernels have quota support turned on by default.
>
>   stock kernel seems to support old kernels (vfsold),    (at least up to
>2.4.17)
>   redhat kernels seem to support new quotas (vfsv0)
>
># 1) add user and/or group quotas to /etc/fstab:
>
>LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults,usrquota 1 2
>LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults,usrquota,grpquota 1 2
>
># 2) reboot... you will get a quotaon error message.
>
># 3) create quotafile (make sure the format is correct):
>quotacheck -Maugv -F vfsold   (stock)
>quotacheck -Maugv -F vfsv0    (redhat)
>
>You may not need or want the -M flag, see the man pages.
>
># 4) enable quotas (or reboot)
>quotaon -a
>
># 5) commands:
>repquota -a
>edquota <user>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Nicolas Bock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 9:14 AM
>Subject: Re: quota: Error while getting quota [...] No such file or
>directory
>
>
>  
>
>>>>quota: Error while getting quota from myhost:(pid3258) for 3369: No
>>>>        
>>>>
>such
>  
>
>>>>file or directory
>>>>Disk quotas for user nbock (uid 3369): none
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>You need to initialise the disk quota files on that volume (quota.user
>>>      
>>>
>and
>  
>
>>>quota.group). Use edquota to do it.
>>>      
>>>
>>Even after doing that, I still get the error message:
>>
>>[0621/9:42]my_client:~>quota
>>quota: Error while getting quota from my_client:(pid1059) for 3369: No
>>    
>>
>such
>  
>
>>file or directory
>>Disk quotas for user nbock (uid 3369):
>>     Filesystem  blocks   quota   limit   grace   files   quota   limit
>>grace
>>       /dev/md1 29554420  50000000 60000000           26390   50000
>>75000
>>
>>I don't know what file quota is talking about. I found out something
>>interesting though. Take a look at the following commands:
>>
>>[0621/10:10]my_client:~>quota
>>quota: Error while getting quota from my_client:(pid1059) for 3369: No
>>    
>>
>such
>  
>
>>file or directory
>>Disk quotas for user nbock (uid 3369): none
>>
>>[0621/10:10]my_client:~>quota -u
>>quota: Error while getting quota from my_client:(pid1059) for 3369: No
>>    
>>
>such
>  
>
>>file or directory
>>Disk quotas for user nbock (uid 3369): none
>>
>>[0621/10:10]my_client:~>quota -F vfsv0
>>Disk quotas for user nbock (uid 3369): none
>>
>>When I force quota to use the new version of quota, then it doesn't
>>    
>>
>complain
>  
>
>>about some file not being found. Is that a bug in quota?
>>
>>nick
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>    
>>
>
>
>
>
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