[BlueOnyx:02377] Re: disable quotas

[Gerald Waugh]

>> For a certain number of sites on a BX we have running, we would like to
>> totally disable quotas and have those site use up all the available
>> space on that partition (which will never happen).
>>
>> Any advice on whats the best way to achieve that? Disable quotas
>> server-wide.
>> Will this have any negative side effect on BX?
>>
>
> I disabled the quota on a server by
> editing /etc/fstab to remove quota options from /homecp etc/fstab 
> /etc/fstab.bak
> vi /etc/fstab
>   find line
> /dev/VolGroup00/home    /home      ext3    defaults,usrquota,grpquota 1 2
>   change to
> /dev/VolGroup00/home    /home                   ext3    defaults       1 2
> :wq save the file
>  then execute
> mount /home -o remount
> /sbin/quotaoff -a
> chattr -i /home/aquota*  (remove immutable attribute)
> mv /home/aquota* /root (saving here)
> /etc/init.d/cced.init restart
>
> You might have to reboot, I did, but I didn't do the /etc/init.d/cced.init 
> restart, which would probably work
> without the reboot.
> I had trouble mking directories due to quota on the user that was 
> overquota
> Once I rebooted there was no trouble at all, ftp ing files, making dirs 
> and so forth
>
BTW active monitor 'disk usage' indicates that all sites and all users have 
unlimited quota.

Gerald