[KLUG Members] Quota on Redhat 8.0

[MPs]

Thankyou. Actually though, I found the problem was in the kernel they
shiped with RH 8. For one reason or another the updated kernel didn't get
installed with all the rest of the updates. Thanks for the help.

Miles Pschigoda

On 16 Jul 2003, Adam Williams wrote:

> > The school I work for just recently upgraded our servers to linux boxes.
> > My perfered distro is slackware, but redhat was pre-installed with dell
> > monitoring software so whatever.
> >  My problem is with quotas, they don't
> > work. How is redhat expecting me to create the /home/quota.user and .group
> > files. Am I thinking in the wrong version of quota? I ran touch
> > /home/quota.user /home/quota.group . I have also created the quota files
> > using the quotacheck -c . Now edquota and quotastats run, and
> > it looks like I have quotas, but on bootup, and at the commandline,
> > quotaon -a fails with quotaon: Cannot find quota file on /home [/dev/sda6]
> > to turn quotas on/off.
>
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/ch-disk-quotas.html
>