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Souperman
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 Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 7:55 am Post subject: Weekly quotacheck cron job gives me this message ... |
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I added the following to root's crontab, as suggested by just about every quota HOWTO I read:
| Code: | | 0 3 * * 0 /sbin/quotacheck -avugp |
When it runs though, I get the following e-mail from the cron daemon:
| Code: | quotacheck: Quota for users is enabled on mountpoint / so quotacheck might damage
the file.
Please turn quotas off or use -f to force checking. |
Anyone have a similar problem? Seems pointless to run something weekly that doesn't really do anything.
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Spooky Ghost
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| Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 10:35 am Post subject: |
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| AFAIK there is no reason to run the quotacheck weekly. It should only be necessary if the filesystem was not unmounted cleanly, i.e. probably as a result of a crash. (What ever those are;) Gentoo already handles execution of quotacheck in the init scripts if required so I think you can safely remove this line from your crontab. |
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Souperman
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| Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 11:46 am Post subject: |
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Great, thanks. 
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