Re: How to enable quotas on /home

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 02:20:36PM +0100, Gerard Lally wrote:
> I'm trying to get quotas working on 7 beta. As far as I can tell the old 
> way of implementing quotas in fstab has been superseded, and fstab(5) 
> recommends "turn[ing] on the new, in-file system quota with tunefs(8) or 
> at newfs(8) time, and to not use the 'userquota' or 'groupquota' 
> options."
> 
> /home is a GPT partition - /dev/dk3. The file system was created as 
> follows:
> 
> newfs -O2 -b 16384 -f 2048 /dev/dk3
> 
> "tunefs -q user -q group /home" returns "enabling user quotas, enabling
> group quotas", which appears to confirm user and group quotas have been
> successfully enabled. I then run fsck_ffs on /home, following the
> recommendation in tunefs(8). I follow the prompts to create user quota
> inodes and group quota inodes; one thing I notice is it repeatedly
> informs me of user and group quota mismatches for ID 0 and 1000. At this
> stage quotas seem to be enabled but edquota tells me no mounted
> filesystems have quota support.
> 
> Forcing fsck_ffs at reboot with the -f flag in rc.conf makes no 
> difference; as soon as I reboot "tunefs -N /home" tells me quotas are 
> disabled again.
> 
> Where am I going wrong? I've looked at all the quota-related man pages
> but it's quite hard to separate those relevant to the new quota
> subsystem from those relating to the older method. quotaon(8) and
> quotaoff(8), for example, don't seem relevant to the new method.

You did run tunefs with /home unmounted, did you ?

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