Re: 2.4, 2.4-ac and quotas

[Matt Bernstein]

>> 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.

>  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.

Thanks--over the weekend I appear to have that bit working. I still can't
add quotas to my shiny new ext3 partition though :(

$ touch /export01/aquota.user
$ umount /export01
$ mount /export01 -o usrquota
$ quotaon /export01
quotaon: using /export01/aquota.user on /dev/sda3: Invalid argument

The strace shows:
quotactl(0x10000, 0x8053fe8, 0, 0x8053fc8) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)

Is there a recent HOWTO on this (maybe I've got it wrong)?

Cheers,

Matt