Re: Red Hat 7.1 and quotas

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:23 6-6-2001 +0100, P.Dixon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just upgraded to Red Hat 7.1 from Red Hat 6.2 and have all my file
> systems using xfs. Unfortunately, I can no longer get quota running:
>
> [root@hepserv /root]# quotaon /export/users
> quotaon: /dev/sdb1: Invalid argument
> quotaon: /dev/sdb1: Invalid argument
>
> Does the kernel that is installed by the SGI XFS 1.0 Red Hat 7.1 CD have
> quota support enabled? Perhaps there is something obvious that I am not
> doing...?

Do you mount the drive with the usrquota and grpquota options?
Quotas with XFS are enabled at mount time not by quotaon
Check your dmesg output for the line that says it is enabling quotas.

Cheers

--
Seth
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