Re: 2.4, 2.4-ac and quotas

[Jan Kara]

  Hello,

> I'm desperately looking for some recent documentation on quotas.
> 
> We've recently upgraded our two Debian potato fileservers to 2.4 and
> 2.4-ac (currently they're both running 2.4-ac so I can't check 2.4 atm)
> and quotas have stopped working.
> 
> The quota package is 3.00pre01-7.bunk, and quotaon calls quotactl which
> returns -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory), as it's looking for
> aquota.user, evidently a "version 2 quota" (according to the edquota
> manpage), and not falling back to the quota.user files which do exist.
> 
> So now we're essentially running without quota support :-(
> 
> On another computer (Debian woody) I've made an ext3 partition, touched
> aquota.user and quotactl now returns -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument).
  Before you can use new quota you have to convert old quotafiles to new
ones. You can do this by convertquota(8) utility which is in the package.
Or you can just run 'quotacheck -F vfsv0 -c <mountpoint>' to create completely
new quota files with new quota format.
  3.01-pre9 which Alan pointed you to is the latest release of quota tools
(I have already some bugfixes but they are of minor nature).

									Honza