Messages in this thread |  | | From | Herbert Rosmanith <> | Subject | quota can lock your machine | Date | Fri, 17 May 1996 03:12:14 +0200 (MET DST) |
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hi,
okay, so I've found out to add ",quota" to /etc/fstab for the filesystem I want to have quotaized, that's been a good guess :-) ?
however, I was able to block my machine. I typed "repquota -a", and repquota would never return. kill -9 didnt terminate the process. typing "sync" or "df" on a differenet console would then also hang and never return (df would only display the headers, but no fstab-contents).
additionally, "reboot" would now just kill all processes (except the hung ones), but not really reboot the machine. You couldn`t log in over the net, nor from the console anymore. The only way to reboot was the <reset> key.
/herp
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