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From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa)
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Subject: Re: Weird quota
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 11:59:33 GMT
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References: <XFMail.990223222545.jpedras@mail.telepac.pt> from Joao Pedras at "Feb 23, 99 10:25:45 pm" <MAIL19990225105336.BBUD28085@[194.65.206.137]>
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On 25 Feb 1999 05:59:21 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote:
>
># Check the quotas (must be after ypbind if 
>using NIS)[ "X${check_quotas}" = X"YES" ]; then
>	echo -n 'checking quotas:'
>	/usr/sbin/quotacheck -a
>	echo ' done.'
>	/usr/sbin/quotaon -a
>

The other thing I am not entirely clear on with quotas, is can I do a
quotacheck on a live machine ? The man pages say 

	Quotacheck accesses the raw device in calculating
	the actual disk usage for each user.  Thus, 
	the filesystems checked should be quiescent while 
	quotacheck is running.

Should be, or *must* be ?

i.e. can I safely do 

quotaoff -a
quotacheck -a
quotaon -a

or can I just do a quotacheck to fix the inconsistancies ?

	---Mike
Mike Tancsa  (mdtancsa@sentex.net)		
Sentex Communications Corp,   		
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada


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