Need Help with Quotas

[mtekc]

Im running FC1 and i read the documentation on redhat on how to setup quotas on the problem is that on my

/etc/fstab

i dont have the : LABEL=/home

and thats where i want to set up quotas. What should i do ?

Here is what i have on my fstab:

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0


Any help would be very appreciated

[mtekc]

Anyone ?

[ilja]

The problem is, you don't have /home on a extra partition. To make a quota you have to make an extra partition for /home. Howto: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerwork...-partplan.html
But maybe you will find a method to make quotas on directories.

[mtekc]

Question ?

Can i Setup quotas on / root partition?


I really would hate to move home, because im kind of scared to be honest

[dreamcatalyst]

I cannot get quotas runing no matter what I do. I just asume they dont work under either Fedora 1 or Fedora 2. I have a seperate /home partition and I added usrquota and grpquota to my fstab and says bad fs type, option ... when it tries to mount /home.

[mtekc]

Can anyone share some light on this post ?

[tommytomato]

I think i may have it now guys, well four days to get it going and 7 reboots

First thing i did was add a user into the system ( adduser tommy ) then his password ( passwd tommy )

Then i hoped into init 1 mode

Then i type the following command in vi /etc/fstab

Then i edited the file and added usrquota,grpquota to the top line so it looks like this

LABEL=/       /     ext3     defaults,usrquota,grpquota 1 1

then i type in ( mount -o remount / )

then i type in the following

rm -rf /home/quota.user
rm -rf /home/quota.group

touch /home/quota.user
touch /home/quota.group

chmod 0600 /home/quota.user
chmod 0600 /home/quota.group

then i type in quotacheck -vagum

it came up with the following

quotacheck:Scanning/dev/hda2 [/] *

* means its flashing
then i type in edquota -u tommy

I added 50000 hoping its 50MB worth

then i type in init 3 to get out of int 1 mode

then i rebooted

then on reboot where all the green oks are, no errors but the very last one, ( where do i find the error boot log to see what the error is, its going to fast for me to see. some thing about events.

once booted up i type in
repquota /

which shows me this

[root@rockinghamgateway root]# repquota /
*** Report for user quotas on device /dev/hda2
Block grace time: 7days; Inode grace time: 7days
                        Block limits                File limits
User            used    soft    hard  grace    used  soft  hard  grace
----------------------------------------------------------------------
root      -- 1964445       0       0         139823     0     0
daemon    --      16       0       0              5     0     0
lp        --       8       0       0              2     0     0
rpm       --   42308       0       0            120     0     0
vcsa      --       0       0       0            128     0     0
rpcuser   --      32       0       0              8     0     0
smmsp     --      12       0       0              3     0     0
apache    --      48       0       0             12     0     0
squid     --      16       0       0              4     0     0
webalizer --      24       0       0              6     0     0
xfs       --       8       0       0              3     0     0
named     --      36       0       0              9     0     0
ntp       --      12       0       0              3     0     0
postfix   --      88       0       0             22     0     0
mailman   --       0       0       0              1     0     0
mysql     --      16       0       0              4     0     0
postgres  --      28       0       0              8     0     0
tommy     --      28   50000       0              8     0     0


[root@rockinghamgateway root]#
[root@rockinghamgateway root]#

I see where i added tommy too, does this look right.

I'll turn on vsftpd and see if i can upload a file bigger than 50MB and see what happens

TT

Well it still let me upload over 50MB

I edited the vsftpd
and made tommys public_html

[root@rockinghamgateway root]# /etc/init.d/vsftpd start
Starting vsftpd for vsftpd:                                [  OK  ]
[root@rockinghamgateway root]# /etc/init.d/vsftpd restart
Shutting down vsftpd:                                      [  OK  ]
Starting vsftpd for vsftpd:                                [  OK  ]
[root@rockinghamgateway root]# mkdir /home/tommy/public_html
[root@rockinghamgateway root]# chown tommy /home/tommy/public_html
[root@rockinghamgateway root]# chmod 0755 /home/tommy/public_html
[root@rockinghamgateway root]# cd /home/tommy/public_html
[root@rockinghamgateway public_html]# ls
sovietufo2.rm
[root@rockinghamgateway public_html]# ls -al
total 57024
drwxr-xr-x  2 tommy root      4096 Sep  4 10:48 .
drwx------  3 tommy tommy     4096 Sep  4 10:41 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 tommy tommy 58322164 Sep  4 10:48 sovietufo2.rm
[root@rockinghamgateway public_html]#

do i have to Enforce Quotas ?

like so

#!/bin/bash

quotacheck -vagu

how do i make a cron job ( use webmin )

TT

and to top it off i'm still trying to get it going..

any ideas guys

[GNU_Gravity]

I would recommend the following setup link - I used this to configure for FC6 and it worked fine.

http://yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialQuotas.html

Has anyone here redirected to output of repquota to their logwatch? I am in the process of scripting the quota maintenance and I would like to see the repquota output in my logwatch but I am slightly clueless as to how to redirect the output that way.

If you know, let me know!! - thx