Re: problem with quota on rootfs

[Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

Joerg Maier wrote:

> when i try to remount my / fs with usrquota as an option it does not work:
> # mount -t xfs -o remount,usrquota /dev/sda6 /
> mount: / not mounted already, or bad option
>
> i tried to use quota and xfs on that system on a loop filesystem and it 
> worked fine.
>
> Could anybody help me how to get quota work on my xfs rootfs? I don't 
> know how to see which version of quota is on the device as well, 
> xfs_info shows nothing that gives me a hint.
>
> thanks in spe,
> joerg maier

You need to get the quota options into the root mount options from
the bootloader.

Steve