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From: Nicolas Kowalski <Nicolas.Kowalski@imag.fr>
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Subject: Re: quotas on 5.3
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On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, dave wrote:

> Hello,

Hello.

>    Got a question on quotas. I've enabled them on /usr and /var filesystems
> by adding the userquota option to their options in fstab. This is after i
> recompiled my kernel with the QUOTA option in it and rebooted. I then added:
> enable_quotas="YES"
> check_quotas="NO"

Why did you set this last option to "NO" ?

According to /etc/rc, the quotacheck utility (which creates and updates 
the quota files) will be run only if check_quotas is set to "YES".

Regards.

-- 
Nicolas