Lucas Vogel wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > This may be none of my business, but why were you using quotas in the first > place? For your root filesystem, no less? What user are you trying to put > quotas on? > > try booting into runlevel 3 or something similar. When you get the prompt, > type 'linux 3' and see if that works... > ---- I think it might be better to use the Control-X option at lilo boot and type linux 1 I don't use quotas but I don't think it wise to use quotas on the root filesystem. I think it would be better to have separate partitions for /var or /home or /var/spool/mail or whatever you want to quota and then it becomes a simple thing to administer. Craig