there's one more thing i have to ask. i used edquota to set my disk quota. i know i have to save what i had just edited but what's the filename??? is it quota.user?? what's inside the quota.user file??? pls pls. help me. mark At 10:37 AM 11/3/99 -0500, you wrote: >use edquota to edit that users quotas. >By default they have none. >J. > >On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Mark Anthony wrote: > >> i created the quota.user and edited the fstab. >> when a issue the command, quota user, it replies >> >> [mark@proxy mark]$ quota <user> >> Disk quotas for user <user> (uid 500): none >> >> pls excuse me for being such a slow learner. >> >> >> mark >> >> ---------- >> > From: jwalsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > To: Kev Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > Subject: Re: disk quota. >> > Date: Sunday, October 31, 1999 12:59 AM >> > >> > >> > Yes you can. >> > Make the appropriate changes to fstab, create the appropriate quota files >> > on the partition you wish to enable quotas on. Then remount the partition >> > without actually bringing it down, like this: >> > mount -oremount,usrquota,grpquota >> > >> > Ignore the "Invalid Argument" message for first time quota support. >> > With quota support now active, you can use edquota to add >> > appropriate quotas to that partition. >> > >> > > On the subject of quotas... >> > > Excuse me if I'm being stupid, but the HOWTO for quotas says you need >> to >> > > reboot after putting together quota support. >> > > Is there a way around this one without rebooting? and if not why not? >> ;-) >> > >> > >> > -- >> > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" >> > as the Subject. >> > -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
