Can someone assist me in setting up disk quotas for my users? I've been trying to this using the following link:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/ch-disk-quotas.html

but I keep crashing my linode. Any help would be appreciated. I'm wanting to set about 250-300MB of space per user.

Thanks
l0st_s0ul

Where in the process do you run into trouble?

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/ Peter

Well, when I followed those instructions and did what it said, my linode wouldnt start. Here is my etc/fstab:



i dunno what im doing wrong? but when I do this, my linode will not start

Hi,

For a start you shouldn't have copy-pasted the fstab lines from the RedHat document. You need to remove the lines starting "LABEL=" -- it is probably why your Linode won't boot.

Recovering your Linode
If you can't reach the /etc/fstab from a regular boot, you can access the root disk image by using a recovery profile:

1. https://www.linode.com/members/configs.cfm
2. Select "Create a new configuration profile".
3. Add the following:
Label: Recovery - Finnix
Kernel: Recovery - Finnix (kernel)
Run Level: Single user mode
Drive setup:
/dev/ubda Recovery Finnix (iso)
/dev/ubdb (select your root drive image, e.g. Debian)
[Save Profile]

(Don't make this the "default" configuration.)

4. From the main page - https://www.linode.com/members/main.cfm - at "Issue a command to your Linode", select the "Recovery - Finnix"
from the drop-down list and issue a reboot (or start) command.

Access your Linode via ssh <host>.linode.com, login and mount the root partition of your Linode -- IIRC, this should work:

mount /mnt/ubdb

Now edit your fstab with nano / vi:

nano /mnt/ubdb/etc/fstab

and remove the offending LABEL lines.

Reboot the Linode via https://www.linode.com/members/main.cfm again, and it should restart. Your Linode will be alive again.

Adding quotas

I've not done this myself, but to add quotas to your Linode just edit the appropriate fstab entry -- don't add lines that don't belong there. For example, if you wanted to add quotas to your root partition, EDIT the line:

/dev/ubda / ext3 defaults 1 1

so it looks like this:

/dev/ubda / ext3    defaults,usrquota,grpquota 0 1

The rest of the instructions from the RedHat guide should then work.

HTH.


Cliff