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#! rnews 2072 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsfeeder.gi.net!news.mid.net!news.dra.com!news.starnet.net!wupost!newsreader.wustl.edu!usenet From: Matt Rosenberg <matt@server.wulaw.wustl.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: disk quotas Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 12:44:22 -0600 Organization: Washington University School of Law Lines: 35 Message-ID: <3118F306.8B4@server.wulaw.wustl.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: @128.252.112.223 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) CC: questions@freebsd.org I tried to install quotas on my system, following the instructions straight from the FreeBSD documentation web pages. Everything seemed to go smooth: 1. compiled and installed the new kernel with the quotas option 2. edited /etc/fstab to put userquota option on two file systems 3. created an empty quota.user file in the root of both file systems 4. rebooted 5. ran edquota on a test user 6. ran repquota -a and everything was working Then problems: 1. tried to give all users the same quotas with a perl script that put all real users in a long string with a space delimiter and ran edquota -up test long_string_of_all_users 2. ran repquota -a and although everyone had the correct quotas, their usage numbers were obviously wrong 3. rebooted, and tried a quota command from a regular user and it hung the machine 4. started over with blank quota.user files and tried quota command it hung the system again 5. rebooted the system without quota.user files or quotas in /etc/fstab and started completely over, yet still, any quota command or quotacheck command hangs the system HELP!!!! :O [I have gotten a little frustrated at this point] -- ============================================= Matt Rosenberg Washington University School of Law St. Louis, MO, USA matt@www.wulaw.wustl.edu http://www.wulaw.wustl.edu/~matt/ =============================================