quotacheck command not found on fedora

[mtekc]

Im trying to setup the quotas

i add it the :

usrquota,grpquota to the /etc/fstab and reboot it the system .

then i ran the command quotacheck and i get command not found. :confused:

What can i do ? any ideas ?

PS: Im running FC2

[Jman]

You ran it as an ordinary user. It is in /sbin/quotacheck, not in a user's path.

Also, from the man page:
NOTE
quotacheck should only be run by super-user. Non-privileged users are
presumably not allowed to read all the directories on the given
filesystem.

So I would run it as root: enter su - and the root password, and run it.

[ilja]

please don't write bold

and you can use the su - command to become root.

//edit: jman edited his post :p

[mtekc]

i know that has to be done under root.

But now im getting this when i run it

/sbin/quotacheck -acug /home
Bad number of arguments

im trying to follow this from redhat


Disk Quotas (http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/ch-disk-quotas.html)

Is it different for fedora ?

[Jman]

Back to the manpage, all those options exist. However, -a, -u, and -g are quite similar, so this may be causing the confusion?

Try it without the -a option.

[mtekc]

/sbin/quotacheck -cug /home

quotacheck: Cannot remount filesystem mounted on /home read-only so counted values might not be right. Please stop all programs writing to filesystem or use -m flag to force checking.


Do i have to force with the -m flag ? because i cant umount /home ..its busy.. :mad:

[Jman]

You can probably unmount it in single user mode. Run telinit 1

[mtekc]

Thanks a lot Jman !

Got it working. Thanks for the help :)

[Jman]

No problem.