SUMMARY: QUOTAS
yuli@yakinthos.di.uoa.gr
Wed, 05 Nov 1997 13:22:12 +0200 (EET)
Though th a question about the quotas mechanism was simple, I received
adequate answers and I thank David Mitchell and Eugene Kramer for their
immediate response
Ther goes the answer:
> I have set quotas but:
> a) do I have to submit quotaon each time the system reboots, and how
this
> can be run with a script (i mean how you run scripts automatically when
> the system reboots)?
> b) apparently setting qutas is not enough. quotacheck makes the checking
> (or not?) . So does it have to be made run periodically and how?
quotaon and quotacheck are automatically run at boot time as long as
at least one entry in vfstab has the 'quota' option set.
Once quotas have been enabled with quotaon, the kernal automatically
keeps track of the changes in usage of all users who have quotas set.
You would only need to run quotacheck manually if
* quotas have been turned off and you are now turning them on again,
and you want to avoid a reboot
* if you are setting a quota for a user who already has files on the
disk.