From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Jul 24 03:25:23 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id DAA14428 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 03:25:23 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id DAA14421 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 03:25:18 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA26222; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 12:23:22 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA18792; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 12:40:18 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA04081; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 08:14:44 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199507240614.IAA04081@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Cant switch quotas on without machine hanging To: robin@rucus.ru.ac.za (Robin Lunn) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 08:14:44 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199507231910.VAA10531@rucus.ru.ac.za> from "Robin Lunn" at Jul 23, 95 09:10:18 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 608 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Robin Lunn wrote: > > I have recompiled the kernel with options QUOTA on and unnecesary devices > removed. I have set up quotas on each of the / and /home partitions with > edquota and entered the options userquota,groupquota in /etc/fstab. > About a minute after I quotaon -a the system hangs and has to be reset. I remember a discussion by Terry Lambert that quotas on multiple file systems are broken. Try using it on /home only and see if it will work. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)