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Subject: Re: how to enable the quota on
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Giotis Eugen wrote:
> hello,
> im trying to enable quota on
> and i recieve the following error:
>
> "fstab: /etc/fstab:2: Inappropriate file type or format"
>
> and i typed: "/etc/rc.conf" and i recieve the error: "/etc/rc.conf:
> Permission denied."
>
>
> Can you help me ?
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It is not clear what you are actually typing here, but you should really 
open these files with an editor like, vi, ee, or nano.

e.g.

ee /etc/fstab

and

ee /etc/rc.conf

to change the contents of the files.

Then follow this guide from the handbook:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/quotas.html