01-21-2009
allocate user quota using perl script
Hi
I'm a student who is studying system administration. I need to write a perl script to allocate disk quota to users. I'm using ubuntu and When I try to run edquota command in command line it says that Can't find file system with quota. pls help me. I tried to edit fstab. but didn't work.
Piumali
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LEARN ABOUT HPUX
quotacheck_hfs
quotacheck_hfs(1M) quotacheck_hfs(1M)
NAME
quotacheck_hfs: quotacheck - quota consistency checker for HFS file systems
SYNOPSIS
filesystem ...
DESCRIPTION
The command examines each HFS file system, builds a table of current disk usage, and compares this table against that stored in the disk
quota file for the file system. If any inconsistencies are detected, both the quota file and the current system copy of the incorrect quo-
tas are updated.
expects each file system to be checked to have a file named in the root directory. If none is present, reports an error and ignores the
file system. is normally run at mount time from start up scripts.
filesystem represents a mount point or block special device (for example,
Options
recognizes the following options:
Obtain list of file systems to check from
Only mounted file systems of type and (or with the option are checked.
Specify the file system type
Check file systems in parallel as allowed by equal values in the
pass number field in
Preen file systems, checking only those with invalid quota statistics
and commands can invalidate quota statistics as discussed in quota(5) -- see quotaoff(1M) and edquota(1M)). Also
checks in parallel as in above.
Check user quotas.
This is the default action.
Echo the completed command line, but perform no other
action. The command line is generated by incorporating the user-specified options and other information derived from
This option allows the user to verify the command line.
Indicate the calculated disk quotas for each user
on a particular file system. normally reports only those quotas that are modified.
AUTHOR
was developed by HP and the University of California, Berkeley.
FILES
Static information about the file systems
Mounted file system table
Quota statistics static storage for filesystem where
directory is the file system root as specified to the command (see mount(1M)).
SEE ALSO
mount(1M), quotacheck(1M), quotaoff(1M), quotaon(1M), quota(5).
quotacheck_hfs(1M)