disabling disk quota

From: Zehra Soysert <soysert_at_bornova.ege.edu.tr>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 17:05:18 +0300 (EET)

Hello Managers,

My problem is that /etc/fstab file is corrupted (there are some garbage
characters) and there is somehow disk quota on user root.(Some other
people may have put the quota,probably a hacker)

Then I could bring the system to single user mode , try to remove quota
from root. Since this requires writing to disk, it says "disk quota
exceeded" and I was unable to remove quota. Then I decided to remove
userquota from fstab and reboot again.
Now the fstab file is corrupted and the system mounts root as
root_device (not root_domain) and read-only.
mount -u / produces memory fault message.

I can mount /usr file system as read-write manually but couldn't do the
same for root_domain.

In man page, it says when the fstab file is corrupted try
mount -u /dev/rzxx /
But this produces error message "Not enough space"

How can I remove quota from root in single user mode? (I cannot enter
multiuser mode) Our file system is, Advanced File System.
Any help will be greatly appreciated..

Zehra Soysert
Received on Mon Jan 12 1998 - 16:03:40 NZDT

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