Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 40194
quota fails to generate quota files
Last modified: 2014-01-21 17:48:02 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Terminal) Description of problem: 1. quotacheck does not creates aquota.user or aquota.group files. (freshly installed system with only one partition: /) 2. quotacheck does not repair corrupted aquota files. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: (aquota.user is created this way: touch quota.user convertquota / ) 1. rm aquota.user 2. quotacheck -u / Step 2. can be replaced with reset button. (After unclean shutdown quotacheck should run from /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit) Actual Results: Nothing. Expected Results: aquota.user file should be created. Additional info:
Try this before you turn on quota: convertquota -ug /
man quotacheck says: If a file(aquota.user and/or aquota.group) is not present, quotacheck will create it. quotacheck is normally run at boot time as an init script located in /etc/init.d before enabling disk quotas with quotaon. Either the man page is incorrect or quotacheck does not do its job. My opinion is: if something corrupts aquota files (eg.: I deleted them) quotacheck should recreate or correct them without using convertquota, or any other commands. convertquota is responsible for upgrading quota files, but why should I use for a newly installed system. /etc/rc.d/sysinit runs convertquota if quota.user or quota.group exists, but if not, then quotacheck does not do anything because there will be no aquota files.
agreed, this is being fixed.
*** Bug 47577 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 53466 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
* repquota -ua segfaults after the output of the data * repquota doesn't seem to print out correct values, because e.g. deleting files does not change the numbers showed with repquota
I think this bug is still active for rh 7.2 systems I cannot get quotas on a brand new system to work correctly. they won't turn on and they won't let me generate new files.
This is definitely still happening on quota 3.01pre9-3 on 7.2 I'm reopening it.
oops, I'd like to reopen it - but I can't. B/c I didn't file it originally. could we reopen this one? please? thanks
ok, I'll be quiet, I promise, it is working correctly I was just misreading. just ignore my last 4 comments. ugh. sorry
I seem to be experiencing the exact same bug in Redhat 8.0 the version of quota that I am using is quota-3.06-5. The system I am using was a fresh install of 8.0 with the only one file system (also /).
I'm pretty sure that they mean that you can use quotacheck to create the quota file, not that it will automatically be created when quotacheck is run after a reboot (from init). You will typically need to use the "-c" parameter to create the quota file, which is not done in the init file.