[lug] Help : Quotacheck bug!

Hugh Brown hugh at vecna.com
Thu Jun 28 06:24:34 MDT 2001


strace might give some info as to what functions it is calling (and perhaps
a clue as to the last thing it is able to do).

You might try upgrading kernels too.

Hugh


"Ehsan Foroughi"
> 
> It does have a verbose option but it doesn't log any thing.
> actually it shows the progress :
>   Scan of /home [/dev/md1] |
> it rotates at first |/-\| ... but suddenly it stops.
> 
> --Ehsan,
> 
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Hugh Brown wrote:
> 
> > does quotacheck have a verbose option?  have you looked in
> > /var/log/messages?
> >
> > Hugh
> >
> >
> > "Ehsan Foroughi"
> > >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I am admin of a system with 600 users and about 6 GB of /home.
> > > While changing the Hardware I moved the entire system to
> > > RedHat 7.1 .
> > >
> > > But I can't turn the quotas on. "quotacheck" runs for a while
> > > and stops suddenly doing nothing forever. I have tried almost
> > > every thing ( mounted or unmounted , converting old quotas , ...
> > > quotacheck won't come out )
> > >
> > > The System is a PIII 866 , 2x 40GB HD (RAID) , RH7.1 , Kernel 2.4.2.
> > >



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