(Depending on what version of NetBSD you are running) you may need
	to specify 'ffs' instead of 'ufs' in /etc/fstab.

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On Fri, 1 Nov 1996, John Ostrowick wrote:

> ok, i give up. i've been fighting this for weeks now. :-6
> i've read the man pages. i've asked our unix sysop and he's sat thru a few
> hours with me trying to get it to work.
> 
> this is the problem:
> 
> when i do an edquota for a user, it does not remember their quota
> allocation, and when i do a quota -u on the person, it says they have no
> quota.
> 
> any ideas?
> 
> my fstab has 
> 
> ufs rw,userquota 1 1 
> 
> in the first line like it's meant to (according to the man pages). I have
> run quotaon and edquota and quotacheck, they all seem to produce no errors
> nor any complaints. but they also don't do what they're supposed to.  i
> have a file at root called quota.users or whatever it's meant to be
> 
> the defaults for running quota stuff are intact in the /etc/*rc* files.
> but despite it all seeming to be correct, no quotas get generated in
> 
> /var/quotas
> 
> nor does quota -u reply with the right answer.
> has anyone else had this problem?
> 
> all help and ideas appreciated.
> thanks :-)
> 
> _________________________________________________________________________
> John Ostrowick
> Computer Science Department, University of the Witwatersrand
> 1 Jan Smuts Ave, Johannesburg, South Africa. 1st Floor, Senate House 1012
> Phone: +27 (011) 716-3783
> jon@cs.wits.ac.za or jon@macenroe.cs.wits.ac.za or jon@is.co.za
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