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Date:      Mon, 25 Feb 2002 14:43:40 -0800
From:      "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
To:        "Nino Dehne" <dehne@tcm.yi.org>
Cc:        <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Disk Quota Without Reboot?
Message-ID:  <013201c1be4d$e02eb080$f82a6ba5@lc.ca.gov>
References:  <010001c1be4b$09c080c0$f82a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> <3C7ABBD2.2050905@tcm.yi.org>

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Nino Dehne" <dehne@tcm.yi.org>
To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
Cc: <questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: Disk Quota Without Reboot?


> hi drew,
>
> Drew Tomlinson wrote:
>
> > Is there any way to enable disk quotas without rebooting?  I've read
the
> > Handbook regarding disk quotas.  It states to put the appropriate
> > entries in rc.conf and fstab and then reboot.  Is there anyway to
enable
> > without rebooting via the mount command?  I want to enable quotas on
a
> > separate disk that is not currently mounted on my running system.
>
>
> what i usually do is
>
>    $ grep <rc.conf-entry> /etc/rc*
>
> to see where and how the setting is recognized and acted upon. this
may
> help in your case.

Thanks for the tip.  It looks like quotaon -a will do it. However I am
getting an error.  It looks like I have to recompile my kernel with
quotas enabled.  I was hoping whatever support required would be loaded
via a module but I guess that's not the case with quotas.

Thanks again,

Drew


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