[lug] Redhat quotacheck

[Dan Ferris]

Sorry for the reply delay.

Since I haven't used Linux quota's for some time, and I can't login to 
the box I had them running on at the moment, I'll direct you to search 
google or the Linux Documentation Project quota HOWTO.

I will also direct you to make sure you are using quota version 3.  As I 
recall it takes much less grief than version 2.

Good luck

Dan Ferris

Jeffrey A. St. Pierre wrote:
> 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
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> Jeffrey A. St. Pierre
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> Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)
> University of Colorado
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