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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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