disk quotas

[mjstone03 0]

I can't seem to get disk quotas running with Redhat9. Everytime I modify the fstab file the machine will say, during reboot, it's dropping to a shell, in which case I run init 5 and change the fstab file back to the way it was. I guess my question is, do disk quotas have to be enabled on a seperate partition? I have 3 partitions- /, boot, swap(dual booting w/win2kserv.). I'm trying to enable quotas for the users(ten users, 20 mb each) home folders in the /home directory. Any suggestions? I think I've tried every possible combination in that fstab file.

[egorgry 0]

That's usually evidence of asyntax error in your fstab. can you post what the fstab looks like when it's bombing on you. I've never had disk quotas on /home when it's mounted on teh same part as / I always have /home in it on partition.

[mjstone03 0]

okay, here's the fstab file:

 

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1

LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2

none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0

/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

 

What I want to do is enable quotas for "/home" which is on the "/", on hda5. I've tried adding lines:

 

LABEL=/ /home ext3 defaults,usrquota,grpquota 1 1

then

LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults,usrquota,grpquota 1 1

and finally

/dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults,usrquota,grpquota 1 1

 

the 3rd one didn't give me an error, but I still couldn't start quotas.

 

[mjstone03 0]

it looks like it might be working. What I did was in the first line of the fstab file(LABEL=/.....) I added usrquota. Then I rebooted successfully and forced a quotacheck. This is the farthest I've gotten, and it's lookin good.