To disk quota experts

[aromes]

My Red Hat Linux system has already quota enabled
(when it boots, it says "turning on quota for root filesystem")
->I did set my partition /dev/hdb2 to be mounted on /home
->I did Edit /etc/fstab with:
/dev/hdb2 /home ext2 defaults,grpquota 1 1
->I created " quota.group " and gave it rw permissions for root.
->I have several users that are member of the group " users"
and want to assign disk quota limitation (group " users" exist in
/etc/group). So I did " edquota -g users ":
quota for group users
/dev/hdb2: blocks in use 2500000, limits (soft = 1500000, hard = 2000000)
inodes in use: 0, limits (soft = 0, hard = 0)
-> Then I did run " quotaon -a"
But the limit quota still does not apply to my group (when I type "quota -g users",
I get " Disk quota for group users (gid 100): none).
Same problem, even after I rebooted my system.
Everything done through these steps were done as user root.
RedHat Linux version 4.2
Kernel 2.0.30
Diskquota version dquot_5.6.0

[drdelaney]

In order to impliment quotas, you need to use the quotacheck command, you cannot simply create a file called quota.group. I did the same thing back when I first started learning about quotas

Basically once the grpquota option is enabled in /etc/fstab and you do a reboot or mount -o remount /home, you will need to run the following commands
# turn quota off, if on
quotaoff /home

# in your case, remove the quota.group file as its 'corrupt', or not made correctly
rm /home/quota.group

# create the new file, initialize the guota.group file
quotacheck -cgvm /home # create. group, verbose, do not remound ro.
# add a u if you wish to enable user quotas as well

# note: it will throw some warnings about not finding old group file, this is ok
ls -la /home/ # should show your group quota file, and possibly user if created

# turn quotas back on
quotaon /home

# recreate group quota
setquota -g users 1500000 2000000 0 0 /home

# check quotas
quota -g users # should show the new quotas


These commands are taken from a newer redhat system, but should be close to what you need. If you get any errors about invalid options, try running "man setquota" or whatever program provided the error.

Hope this helps!

[oz]

Urm... this thread is over 4 years old so any response is not likely to help the OP.

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