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Bug 112528 - Quota may need files at initial setup
Summary: Quota may need files at initial setup
Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Alias: None
Product: [OLD] Docs-user
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Gentoo Security Guide (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Docs Team
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Reported: 2005-11-14 10:36 UTC by Frido Ferdinand
Modified: 2006-09-17 05:24 UTC (History)
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Description Frido Ferdinand 2005-11-14 10:36:15 UTC
Hi,

Not sure about this, but on an empty partition with no files, the setup in:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/security/security-handbook.xml?part=1&chap=5#doc_chap3

doesn't work. After tinkering with this for a while i found that a quotacheck on 
a partition that did not have files generated a 0 byte /home/aquota.{user,group}
statistic file. With this 0 byte file it was not possible to use quotaon. After 
creating some files with dd the files where non-zero and quotaon/off worked.

Could someone please verify this ? (I checked on two systems) ? And if so please
add an entry about this in the handbook, I have not seen this problem described
elsewhere...

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Jan Kundrát (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-11-16 11:58:42 UTC
[bugzilla testing] 
Comment 2 Jan Kundrát (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-11-16 11:59:16 UTC
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Comment 3 nm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-09-17 05:24:53 UTC
If you're not sure, we're not sure. Please reopen if this is a valid documentation problem, not user error or a bad package.

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