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From: tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguely)
Subject: Re: [NetBSD] Problems with quota
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Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1993 21:01:07 GMT
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In article <CAp3nq.6ns@cyb.cojones.com> loodvrij%cyb@fredbox.cts.com writes:
>In article <CGD.93Jul23155021@erewhon.cs.berkeley.edu> cgd@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes:
>>
>>i've never tried quotas in NetBSD (!!), but from what i know,
>>they *should* work...
>>
>They didn't for me. I got everything set up to the point where nothing was
>giving any errors. Redid the kernel from scratch, uncommented the lines
>from /etc/rc, added the stuff to /etc/fstab, and then chose a poor unsuspecting
>user and gave him a pitifully low quota on the usr partition. su'd to him and
>copied the kernel into his directory. Nada. No warning, errors, nothing.
maybe you did not complete the setup, here is a step-by-step instructions
to get them to work:
1) make a kernel with quota option installed
2) edit /etc/fstab and include the kinds of quotas you want, below
I used "userquota", you could also add "groupquota".
/dev/wd0h /usr ufs rw,userquota 1 2
3) for each filesystem that is in /etc/fstab that uses quota,
create the file "quota.user" (and "quota.group if appropriate).
Above I have user quotas in the /usr filesystem, so I would:
# touch /usr/quota.user
4) scan filesystem for files ownership (and/or group ownership).
# quotacheck -a
5) now you can add individual quota limits, if you want to add the same
quotas to the many people, then make a template and replicate the template.
If they change for each user, then edit seperately.
# edquota tinguely
(an editor is kicked up and says something like:
Quotas for user tinguely:
/usr: blocks in use: 11876, limits (soft = 0, hard = 0)
inodes in use: 891, limits (soft = 0, hard = 0)
a limit of 0 means "unlimited" change these to the appropriate number of
blocks. A soft limit generates a warning, and can be exceed for period
of time (7 days?), after which time a soft limit is treated like a hard
limit. A hard limit denies new writes.
to replicate a template (for this example let us assume "tinguely is the
template):
# edquota -p tinguely user1 user2 user3 ... userN
6) turn quotas on (usually done in the /etc/rc file, but turn it on manually
so you do not have to reboot right now:
# quotaon
that should take care of setting up quotas. you can look at the status of
use of files with repquota, the -a option lists all filesystems with quotas.
--mark.