I get this message when trying to check quotas. quotacheck: Quota for users is enabled on mountpoint / so quotacheck might damage the file. Please turn quotas off or use -f to force checking. How do I correct the problem? Thank you in advance
It seems as if quota is already enabled. Try this: Code: quotaoff -avug quotacheck -avugm quotaon -avug
quota file not found see below root@asimov ~]# quotaoff -avug quotaoff: Cannot find quota file on / [/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00] to turn quotas on/off. Thanks so much for responding, techmen8080
my fstab [root@asimov]# cat /etc/fstab /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults,usrquota,grpquota 1 1 LABEL=/backup /backup ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0
ls -la [root@asimov ~]# ls -la / total 170 drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Nov 8 07:42 . drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Nov 8 07:42 .. -rw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 27 13:34 aquota.group -rw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 27 13:34 aquota.user -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 8 07:42 .autofsck -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 11 01:12 .autorelabel drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Oct 11 01:24 backup drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 9 04:03 bin drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Oct 23 17:51 boot drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 13820 Nov 10 21:48 dev drwxr-xr-x 109 root root 12288 Nov 17 04:02 etc drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Nov 1 16:53 home drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Nov 9 04:03 lib drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Oct 10 18:40 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 8 07:43 media drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 8 07:43 misc drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 29 2007 mnt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 8 07:43 net drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 29 2007 opt dr-xr-xr-x 259 root root 0 Nov 8 07:42 proc drwxr-x--- 21 root root 4096 Nov 14 08:29 root drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Nov 9 04:03 sbin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 10 18:41 selinux drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 29 2007 srv drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 0 Nov 8 07:42 sys drwxrwxrwt 6 root root 4096 Nov 21 04:02 tmp drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Oct 10 18:45 usr drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 4096 Oct 24 12:13 var drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Oct 29 23:27 vz
I ran the commands suggested then repeated the following. root@asimov ~]# touch /aquota.user /aquota.group [root@asimov ~]# chmod 600 /aquota.* [root@asimov ~]# mount -o remount / [root@asimov ~]# quotacheck -avugm quotacheck: Quota for users is enabled on mountpoint / so quotacheck might damage the file. Please turn quotas off or use -f to force checking.
same result [root@asimov ~]# quotacheck -avugm quotacheck: Quota for users is enabled on mountpoint / so quotacheck might damage the file. Please turn quotas off or use -f to force checking.
the result of quotacheck -avugmf root@asimov ~]# quotacheck -avugmf quotacheck: WARNING - Quotafile //aquota.user was probably truncated. Can't save quota settings... quotacheck: WARNING - Quotafile //aquota.group was probably truncated. Can't save quota settings... quotacheck: Scanning /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 [/] / done quotacheck: Checked 22860 directories and 238064 files quotacheck: Cannot find checked quota file for users on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00! quotacheck: Cannot find checked quota file for groups on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00!
Please try Code: rm -f aquota.group rm -f aquota.user touch /quota.user /quota.group chmod 600 /quota.* mount -o remount / quotacheck -avugm
the mystery continues... root@asimov ~]# rm -f aquota.group [root@asimov ~]# rm -f aquota.user [root@asimov ~]# touch /quota.user /quota.group [root@asimov ~]# chmod 600 /quota.* [root@asimov ~]# mount -o remount / [root@asimov ~]# quotacheck -avugm quotacheck: Quota for users is enabled on mountpoint / so quotacheck might damage the file. Please turn quotas off or use -f to force checking.
