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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
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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