[root@server /]# quotacheck -m /
quotacheck: WARNING -  Quotafile //aquota.user was probably truncated. Can’t save quota settings…
quotacheck: Something weird happened while scanning. Error 2133571361

I saw these errors after a fresh install of CentOS 5.2 during the process of preparing the server for ISPConfig. If you try to enable quotas after getting this error then quotaon will simply explain it cannot find the files like the below.

[root@server /]# quotaon -avug
quotaon: Cannot find quota file on / [/dev/hda3] to turn quotas on/off.
quotaon: Cannot find quota file on / [/dev/hda3] to turn quotas on/off.

What has happened is even though the aquota.group and aquota.user files do exist the quotacheck command was not able to build the necessary table of disk usage into them because of your disk issues.

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