Chapter 13 Setting up Quotas

cutteranalysis wrote:

So on Chapter 13.3b I modified my /etc/fstab entry to..

/dev /sbd1 /home /etx4 defaults,ursquota 1, 1


and then did

sudo mount -0 remount /home
(rest of the commands.. were cmd not found.. )

anyhow,. when I try to go back into the /etc/fstab entry it claims its being edited by root, and either gives me a blank file in nano, or an infinite loop of "y"'s (which is the beigning of me typeing
yes, I want to edit this file.

So.. what gives?

What do I need to do re-edit the file? clear the cache? the History?
It really shouldn't misbehave like this in the first place. And then there's this cmd not found.. I want to move on in the chapter of course.

Thanks guys,

Jeff

I noticed you are mounting a partition into the /home directory. Unless that partition was setup during installation, you won't be able to login. The only way you can is by logging in as root which is what you might be experiencing. Just a theory.

If you can, tell us exactly what the exercise is asking and perhaps we can better assess the issue.

coop wrote:

Also please note it should be
mount -o ...
not
mount -O ....

and if the edit thing is it being open in a nother process you either have to reboot or get rid of a lock file depending on the editor, but another editor would not care.

Jerry you can mount a filesystem in the home directory after installation? This method would not remove user accounts residing on the partition?

Thinks Jerry. You cleared up some confusion. If you were to mount a filesystem in the /home directory after Linux fully boots, you will loose your user accounts. This was what I thought was being done.

However mounting one in root during system boot is OK. So then what is the correct way to mount a filesystem within a file system?

This just got interesting. As the system boots, it runs through a series of actions that must be completed in the order it was set it. If /etc/fstab is read before user accounts are loaded, then those mounts are established, then whenever should go in them is mounted.

I know you can setup /home to be on a separate partition during installation. Now, we can have linux mount a partition created after installation to any location under the "/" directory.

This is how I am seeing this play out,

During installation, /home is setup and mounted on a filesystem. Then user accounts comes after. System boots, /home is mounted and user accounts are place in it. After installation, I create a new filesystem, one bigger and better than the original. I set this new filesystem to mount within the /home directory which resides on another filesystem. The system boots, it reads /etc/fstab and sees the procedure to mount /home first, then the newly created filesystem is mounted inside /home and then user accounts are placed in it. The file system that is mounted links to some storage elsewhere. That storage gets filled first.

Do both filesystems must be identical in size?

Did my description make sense?