[lug] Redhat quotacheck

[Jeffrey A. St. Pierre]

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Dan Ferris wrote:

> Turn quotas off on the affected file system with quotaoff
>
> quotaoff /var/spool/mail
>
> Then run quotacheck
>
> Then turn quotas on.
>
> (I think the above is right, I don't really remember offhand, to much time on 
> BSD where you don't have to do this).
>
>
OK.. tried that.  One issue though, while the quotacheck is 
running, the filesystem appears to be read-only.  Is there a way 
around this?  is that what the -m flag is for?

I know what you mean about BSD... same thing on Solaris, you can 
run quotacheck whenever you want.

Thanks,

Jeff


> Jeffrey A. St. Pierre wrote:
>> Trying to run quotacheck on a redhat system I am getting errors.
>> despite the documentation at redhat stating that quotacheck should be run 
>> from a cronjob regularly... this is what I get if I just try to run 
>> quotacheck by hand:
>> 
>> -bash <~> sudo quotacheck -vagu
>> Password:
>> quotacheck: Quota for users is enabled on mountpoint /var/spool/mail so 
>> quotacheck might damage the file.
>> Please turn quotas off or use -f to force checking.
>> 
>> however... forcing is not recomended by the man page.  So what is the 
>> proper way to run quotacheck with cronjobs on a RHEnt server... like on 
>> home directories and /var/spool/mail that need to stay online?
>> 
>> -Jeff
>> 
>> Jeffrey A. St. Pierre
>> Head System Administrator
>> Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)
>> University of Colorado
>> Boulder, Colorado  80309
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Jeffrey A. St. Pierre
Head System Administrator
Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)
University of Colorado
Boulder, Colorado  80309
Office:  303 492-8109