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Date:      Wed, 30 Sep 1998 15:58:57 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        Dan Swartzendruber <druber@mail.kersur.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: quota panics
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02.9809301557180.16487-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980928152934.23317B-100000@mail.kersur.net>

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I seem to recall problems turning quotas off and then back on without
rebooting.

My SOP when doing anything related to quotas being turned off or on was to
do it from single user and reboot b/t state changes.  Once the box was up
the quotas were either off or on.

On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:

> 
> I have a 2.2.7-STABLE system that has been using quotas for several
> days with no problems.  I decided to recreate the quota file (some
> users had gotten in that I didn't want there).  I did the following:
> 
> quotaoff /home
> rm /home/quota.user
> quotacheck -v -u /home
> quotaon /home
> 
> (so far, so good)
> 
> setquota -u -f /home -bh10M johndoe
> 
> (and a whole bunch more of similar commands)
> 
> next thing I know, I'm staring at a kernel panic.  I don't (yet)
> have a dump, because I didn't get a corefile from savecore (I
> have a separate question about this in to freebsd-questions).
> I've looked through GNATS and don't see anything like this.  Has
> anyone else?
> 
> p.s. as soon as I get more useful debug info, I'll follow up ...
> 
> 
> 
> 
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