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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!werple.apana.org.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!swrinde!pipex!uunet!psinntp!adam.cc.sunysb.edu!newsserv.cs.sunysb.edu!starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu!localhost!gene From: gene@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Quotas on 1.1.5.1-R Date: 4 Dec 94 07:00:07 Organization: Gene Stark's home system Lines: 20 Message-ID: <GENE.94Dec4070007@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> References: <3bkg6g$qb5@elysium.clare.tased.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.cs.sunysb.edu. In-reply-to: preece@elysium.clare.tased.edu.au's message of 1 Dec 1994 12:39:44 GMT >I've been running FreeBSD 1.1.5.1-R happily for near a year now (or since >it was released) and last week I decided to install quotas when I put in >a new disk... > >Well.. > >I compiled them into the kernel - ok. >I set up quotas for users - ok. >I turned it all on in /etc/fstab - ok. > >sometimes the quota works, sometimes it didn't.. > >one user managed to go 24 meg over their hard limit without a problem! >(and repquota showed them as only using 968k).. > >If I however do a quotacheck -a, everything is updated and ok.. You need to turn on "quotacheck -a" before "quotaon -a" in /etc/rc. - Gene Stark