quotas not working

[Blaqb0x]

Hi,

Im running RH7.3. I edited the fstab to run quotas on / then I rebooted. then ran quotacheck -avugbm (to run quota checks on users, groups, backup the old aquota.user/group file and mount the system as read-only)

that created the aquota.user and aquota.group files in /

so I rebooted but, everytime I reboot I get the part where it checks the disk quota and I get an error saying

Enabling local filessytem quotas: quotaon: using //quota.user on /dev/sda2: invalid arguements

Now the one thing I notice as suspicious is that it is looking for quota.user and not aquota.user which is generated by quotacheck.

any ideas?

thanx,

[datamike]

Can you post your /etc/fstab and what are the perms,ownership of the aquota.user file? I have quotas running on two of my RH boxes. One is 7.3 and the other 8.0. I don't remember there being anything differnet but not 100% sure.

[Blaqb0x]

This is my fstab:

--------- /etc/fstab-------
[root@blade jose]# cat /etc/fstab
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults,usrquota 1
1
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0
0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
-----------
these are the permissions of /aquota.user

-rw------- 1 root root 12288 Jul 1 10:22 aquota.user

thanx,

[datamike]

Try changing it to this.

LABEL=/ / ext3 exec,usrquota,dev,rw 1 1

This is how mine is setup. Everything else looks good. Let me know.

[Blaqb0x]

Nope,

that didn't work either?

My RH9.0 box has quotas enabled and it worked fine the first time.

could it have anything to do with RH7.3 and EXT3?

thanx,

[datamike]

Well if I remember correctly, the only difference in EXT2 and EXT3 is EXT3 has journaling. EXT2 will take a lot longer to recover from a crash. Maybe try changing it to EXT2 and see what happens. If that doesn't work then I can send you the notes I have on quotas. It sounds like you know what your doing though if you have quotas set on another RH 9 box.