linda@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Linda Birmingham) (08/30/89)
This is really posted as a warning to anyone that uses quotas and is about to go to OSx4.4 although any help on the solution of the problem would be gratefully received. When I use edquota and simply quit from the editor the system panics with realloccg: bad bprev. On a previous line a particular file-system is referenced. It was first thought that the quota software is failing when trying to allocate a block of contiguous storage however in one instance it crashed referencing /tmp which must have had some contiguous space in 42MB of free space. Linda. -- Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, England. janet: linda@uk.ac.brunel.cc | :-) uucp:...ukc!cc.brunel!linda |
trudel@caip.rutgers.edu (Jonathan D. Trudel) (09/06/89)
>When I use edquota and simply quit from the editor the system panics >with realloccg: bad bprev. >Linda. I came across the same problem. The format for quotas appears to have changed over the releases. The only solution I have is to first get the result of repquota for each partition (under the original OS if possible), rm the quota file for each partition, turn on quotas again, and then finally, rebuild the quotas by hand with quota. :-( Using sort on the repquota file and 'edquota -p' came in really handy here. If you only have the new OS running, you can still get the some of the quotas - others will be trashed. Clever guesswork (by comparing the groups of users) should help if the numbers are off.