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Date:      Thu, 5 Dec 2002 23:15:21 +0100 (CET)
From:      Andrew Prewett <andrew@kronos.HomeUnix.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: quotas
Message-ID:  <20021205231042.H84236-100000@slave.east.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <200212052124.GB5LOGT38412@asarian-host.net>
References:  <200212052040.GB5KE6T24300@asarian-host.net> <200212051606.56799.rick@help-desk.ca> <200212052124.GB5LOGT38412@asarian-host.net>

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Today Mark wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick Fournier" <rick@help-desk.ca>
> To: "Mark" <admin@asarian-host.net>; <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 10:06 PM
> Subject: Re: quotas
>
>
>
> > every mount point with quota enabled will create a quota.user and
> > or quota.group file in the root of each mount.
>
> Thanks! :) What you say makes perfect sense. Not properly understanding, I
> did a dumb thing; I symlinked /var/quota.user to /quota.user (thinking it
> all needed to be in one file; doh). Then the kernel paniced (and me along
> with it) on shutdown:
>
> "freebsd panic: dqflush: stray dquot"
>
> Well, it rebooted, saw some bad blocks, salvaged them, and everything is
> okay again. Pfew. As someone said here, FreeBSD is very forgiving. :)

You can specify the exact location for the quota files in /etc/fstab, ie.:
/dev/ad0s1h /home ufs rw,userquota=/var/quotas/user.home,groupquota=/var/quotas/grp.home 2 2

	-andrew


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