quotas not doing anything

[Antonioac]

I have set up quotas on a 40GB ext2 partition following the gentoo security guide. There's one user account currently with a home directory on this drive, and I want to limit their usage, for testing, I set the user's hard limit to 6.5 MB's and the soft limit to 5 MB's with a grace period of 10 seconds. After copying 65 MB's+ of data, and re-running quotacheck -avug, this is the output of repquota -a:

*** Report for user quotas on device /dev/hdb5
Block grace time: 00:00; Inode grace time: 7days
Block limits File limits
User used soft hard grace used soft hard grace
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root -- 28 0 0 4 0 0
mewa +- 97260 5000 6500 none 26 0 0

(what's the +-?)
I'm not sure why it says I have no grace time, I clearly put it to 10seconds:

Grace period before enforcing soft limits for users:
Time units may be: days, hours, minutes, or seconds
Filesystem Block grace period Inode grace period
/dev/hdb5 10seconds 7days

output of quotacheck -avug:
quotacheck: Scanning /dev/hdb5 [/mnt/users] done
quotacheck: Checked 6 directories and 25 files

quotaon doesn't seem to work either:
quotaon: using /mnt/users/quota.user on /dev/hdb5 [/mnt/users]: Function not implemented

nor does quotaoff:
quotaoff: quotactl on /dev/hdb5 [/mnt/users]: Function not implemented

It seems all this whole quota thing does is tell you how much space was intended for a quota, and how much space the quota is actually takiing up, without doing anything about it, which is pretty useless... please help

thanks

[Chris W]

Looks like quota support is not built into the kernel, or the kernel has not been installed and the machine rebooted.
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Cheers,
Chris W
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[Antonioac]

ooooh, I forgot to copy the kernel after compiling.... but now it works! THANKS!!