Enabling quotas

zam4ever zam4ever at mybsd.org.my
Sun Feb 29 18:01:11 PST 2004


--------- Original Message --------
From: Robert Fitzpatrick <robert at webtent.com>
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Subject: Enabling quotas
Date: 01/03/04 07:57

> I am running 5.2.1, I found the docs on how to enable quotas and build a
> custom kernel because it is not built into GENERIC, but I can't find out
> what to change my custom kernel before building it. Can someone tell me
> what to look for and change in my custom version of GENERIC to enable
> quotas?
> 
> -- 
> Robert

1. Recompile your kernel with the option:
 options		QUOTA

2. Edit /etc/rc.conf file and add:
enable_quotas="YES"

This section will provide a step by step how to do it:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/quotas.html

And here how to compile and build a custom kernel:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html

regards,
zam4ever


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