Cron quotacheck

[Fortron]

When manually running cron it returns:

executing /etc/cron.daily/quotacheck
/etc/cron.daily/quotacheck:
run-parts: failed to exec /etc/cron.daily/quotacheck: Exec format error
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/quotacheck exited with return code 1

Adding t#!/bin/sh to /etc/cron.daily/quotacheck solved this part.

Next it retuns this:

quotacheck: Quota for users is enabled on mountpoint / so quotacheck might damage the file.
Please turn quotas off or use -f to force checking.
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/quotacheck exited with return code 6

Is there any harm in adding the -f parameter?

[skurudo]

quotacheck: Quota for users is enabled on mountpoint / so quotacheck might damage the file.
Please turn quotas off or use -f to force checking.
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/quotacheck exited with return code 6

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Is there any harm in adding the -f parameter?

It can be.

[jonn]

I'm also curious at why /etc/cron.daily/quotacheck is running quotacheck -um / everyday and sending a error email..

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/etc/cron.daily/quotacheck:
run-parts: failed to exec /etc/cron.daily/quotacheck: Exec format error
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/quotacheck exited with return code 1

running it from the command line produces that warning quotacheck: Quota for users is enabled on mountpoint / so quotacheck might damage the file.Please turn quotas off or use -f to force checking., so why do we need the cron running if we already know quotas are on, am i missing the point of the email.