From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 9 15:29:09 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED53A16A4CE for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 15:29:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F90143D3F for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 15:29:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id j29FT82j078639 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 09:29:08 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 09:29:08 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050309152908.GH37452@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20050309085601.GA2061@quark.cs.earlham.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050309085601.GA2061@quark.cs.earlham.edu> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Subject: Re: Quota problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 15:29:10 -0000 In the last episode (Mar 09), Skylar Thompson said: > I'm having some problems getting quotas enabled on a FreeBSD > 4.11-RELEASE box. I already have quotas enabled on two filesystems, > and need to extend that to a third (presently unquota'd) filesystem. > I added "userquota,groupquota" to the line in /etc/fstab for the > filesystem, touched the files quota.user and quota.group, and > rebooted. The sytem came back up fine, but hung after a few minutes > of normal activity. I rebooted, and the same thing happened. Turning > of the quotas on just that filesystem solved the problem. Has anyone > else had problems like this? The entire system hung how? Did the cursor stop flashing? If you switch to another vty and try to log in, does it let you enter your username and then hang? If so, hit ^T and tell us what's in the square brackets. Also, running "quotacheck /filesystem" is a better way to create the quota files than touching them. It ensures that existing files on the filesystem are correctly accounted for. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com