Re: Unable to activate Quota on root filesystem

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 06:02:20PM +0100, Christoph Bayer wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I am using kernel 2.4.20 + xfs cvs patch from 12/2/2002. I have
> activated quota for linux and for the xfs filesystem.
> I can activate quotasupport on all but the root partition. I get
> the foloowing warning:
> 
> Enabling group quota on root filesystem (reboot to take effect)
> quotaon: quotactl on /dev/hde1: Invalid argument
> Enabling user quota on root filesystem (reboot to take effect)
> quotaon: quotactl on /dev/hde1: Invalid argument
> 
> The root fs was created with 2.4.18 with xfs release 1.0.2...

2.4.18 with XFS 1.0.2?  Where's that one from? :)

Anyway, add rootflags=quota to your lilo/grub command line, the
special casing for quotas on root has been removed in the CVS tree.

Also make sure you update to quota-tools 3.0.8.