Re: Quota question

[Alatakis@t-online.de (Chris Alatakis)]

|
| I would like to set up quotas on my server, I've read the faq on that
| subject but It seems that it's not working.
|
| 1- I've set up quota on my fstab:
| /dev/sd0a /home ffs rw,userquota,groupquota 1 2
| /dev/sd1a /var/www/users ffs rw,nodev,nosuid,userquota,groupquota 1
| 2
|
| 2- I've set up user/group quota with edquota -u user or edquota -g group
| 3- I did: %quotaon -a

1)First if you edit fstab for quota your patition must be remounted.
# vi /etc/rc.conf
or vi etc/rc.conf.local
and check for this line to be
check_quotas=YES

Reboot your system.

2) su to root
3)Set a quota for a valid user
# edquota validuser
will be suffficient
edit the quotas with vi  and not another editor(just recomended)
3) enable the quotas
# quotaon -a


|
| And if if check the quota for user "joe" by "%quota -u joe"
| It said: NO quota for joe
|

4)quota validuser
will be sufficient

| And if I do a "checkquota -a" the operation take a very long time (I
| would'nt stop it)
|
| Is it normal ?

Yes it is. but depends in how big your partition is. How many users have
quotas assigned etc


If you do excactly these and do not work for you:
# uname -a
GENERIC ----> If you not see this in the line come out off your promt then
probably you have compiled a Kernel with no quota support in it.
So you need to recompile your kernel.

Hope you have a GENERIC Kernel

These all are in openbsd faq you have read as you said.
Read the many quota related man pages they are grate guides.

Regards,

Chris