i want to implement disk quota on my /home filesystem (it is going to be a mail server) so i <div>read tha appropriate how to's </div><div>edited limits for the users and everything is fine </div><div><br></div><div>but then for quota meintenance i stuck into quotacheck </div>
<div><br></div><div>the man page says </div><div><br></div><div><div>quotacheck should be run each time the system boots and mounts non-</div><div> valid filesystems. This is most likely to happen after a system crash.</div>
<div><br></div><div>AND </div><div><br></div><div><div>It is also unwise to run quotacheck on a live</div><div> filesystem as actual usage may change during the scan. To prevent</div><div> this, quotacheck tries to remount the filesystem read-only before</div>
<div> starting the scan. After the scan is done it remounts the filesystem</div><div> read-write. </div></div></div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; "><br>
</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px;">but the 7.2.3 paragraph (Managing disk quotas) of centos 5 deployment guide </span></font></div>
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<div></div></div><a id="id2959367" class="indexterm"></a><a id="id2990012" class="indexterm"></a><p>...... However, <tt class="command" style="font-weight: bold; ">quotacheck</tt> can be run on a regular basis, even if the system has not crashed. Running the following command periodically keeps the quotas more accurate .......</p>
<p><br></p><p>i have looked also on the web </p><p>and some suggest to run quotacheck only at boot time </p><p>and others to run quotacheck regularly but i ahve not found a clear answer </p><p>i wonder what are the comments of centos community on hte subject </p>
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