Thanks, Craig (and all who replied).  "linux 1" brought me to a prompt and from there I was able to issue a "mount -n -o
remount,defaults /dev/hda5 /" command.  I wanted to put quotas on /home but it's not on a separate filesystem.  I've learned my lesson
about putting quotas on the root filesystem.  Even after correcting the fstab entry and restarting, quotas didn't work properly on "/"
so I took out the quotas.

Mike

Craig White wrote:

> Lucas Vogel wrote:
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> > 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...
> >
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> 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
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