Bug 8828
| Summary: | When the usrquota,grpquota options are added to the fstab, the box can and will lock up. | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | markm |
| Component: | quota | Assignee: | Preston Brown <pbrown> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2000-01-25 05:41:02 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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quotas work fine with at least Red Hat Linux 6.2 and later. Remember, to create quota.user or quota.group, you have to add either usrquota or grpquota to the proper /etc/fstab line, and then run /usr/sbin/quotacheck <device>. Don't create any files by hand. |
There seems to be a problem with enabling quotas on RH6.0. I have tried this on two different boxes and have had similiar results. What I do is edit the /etc/fstab to put in grpquota on the partition I want to enable quotas on, and then I (as root) create the quota.group in the root directory of that parititon. After that, what happens is extremely annoying. When accessing quotas (edquota), displaying quotas (repquota) or even creating users (/usr/sbin/useradd), the system seems to hang up. It is wedged so bad that I can't even log in using another window to kill the repquota (e.g.) command -- the system displays login/password, but never forks off the shell. Also, ^c and ^z have no effect. The only way to clear the problem is to hit the 'reset' button, since there's no way to log in. The problem seems to be related to validating users -- while /bin/login has no problem running to show the 'login: ' and 'Password: ' prompts, it never gets to create the shell. Same for /usr/sbin/useradd -- the system locked up when I tried to run that command with quotas enabled. On the remote system that I maintain, I edited /etc/fstab to remove the grpquota option from the partition entry, and I typed 'init 6', but the box never came back up. I've got a feeling that it's still trying to shut down (and got wedged somewhere). Tomorrow I'll have my ISP reset the box and I'll see if I can lock up the system again now that quota is off. Thanks for taking the time to read all this.... - Mark Musante Epic Verse Software, Inc. markm