setting filesystem quotas for users

[Gerald Penyweit]

I am running RH7.2 kernel rev
2.4.7-10. I am trying to set
filesystem quotas for users.
When I issue the command
"edquota -u , I get
"No filesystems with quota
detected"

LABEL=/1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy msdos noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

Above are my filesystem mount
points. Prior to issuing the
edquota command, I performed
a "quotaon -u -a", and ran
"touch /quota.user". What am
I doing wrong, and what does
the message mean?

Thank You

[Mark Fenton]

Gerald, to understand what's happening, I think you would be well served by looking at /etc/fstab. The file systems you have available to you are mounted with defaults (which doesn't include quotas). You will need to edit fstab to read something like:

LABEL=/1 / ext3 rw,quota 1 1

and reboot ((since to enfore quotas, the file system needs to be mounted with quotas enabled, and root cannot be unmounted while the system is running))

hope this helps.

Mark

[Gerald Penyweit]

Mark,


Thanks for your initial reply,
but I am still getting the
message:

"quotaon: using //aquota.user on /dev/hda7: Invalid argument" when I execute the
command " quotaon -u -a". This
is after I made the recommended changes in your initial reponse.