[lug] Redhat quotacheck

[Dan Ferris]

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).


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
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