Quota setup in Perfect Debian Sarge

Hi,

Another error I faced today, when I try to setup the quota, I've got a message
quotacheck: Scanning /dev/hda1 [/] Cannot get exact used space... Results might be inaccurate.
done
quotacheck: Checked 1211 directories and 13578 files

when I perform quotacheck -avugm.

Any Ideas?

Thanks

 

That's just a warning. If

Code:

quotaon -avug

says that quota is turned on then everything is fine.

 

No luck still.
quotaon -avug
quotaon: Cannot find quota file on / [/dev/hda1] to turn quotas on/off.
quotaon: Cannot find quota file on / [/dev/hda1] to turn quotas on/off.

 

Did you do this:

Code:

touch /quota.user /quota.group
chmod 600 /quota.*
mount -o remount /
quotacheck -avugm
quotaon -avug

as described on http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_debian_sarge_p3?

 

yes...I do the exactly..
just copy and paste

 

total 38565
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Dec 27 15:43 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Dec 27 15:43 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 28 02:37 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 25 2004 boot
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 25 2004 cdrom
-rw-r----- 1 root root 39301055 Dec 26 17:19 debian_2005_04_09_dist.tgz
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 20480 Dec 27 17:58 dev
drwxr-xr-x 64 root root 4096 Dec 28 02:55 etc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 25 2004 floppy
drwxrwsr-x 8 root staff 4096 Dec 27 00:21 home
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 1024 Oct 14 2004 initrd
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Dec 26 18:36 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 2 2004 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 2 2004 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 25 2004 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 87 root root 0 Dec 27 17:58 proc
-rw------- 1 root root 2097120 Dec 27 15:43 quota.group
-rw------- 1 root root 2097120 Dec 27 15:43 quota.user
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 26 19:12 root
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 26 18:36 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 10 2005 sys
drwxrwxrwt 4 root root 4096 Dec 28 12:47 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Dec 26 21:20 usr
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Dec 26 18:03 var

Any Idea?

 

Please try this:

Code:

rm -f /quota.user
rm -f /quota.group
touch /[B][COLOR="Red"]a[/COLOR][/B]quota.user /[B][COLOR="Red"]a[/COLOR][/B]quota.group
chmod 600 /[B][COLOR="Red"]a[/COLOR][/B]quota.*
mount -o remount /
quotacheck -avugm
quotaon -avug

 

Code:

Still no luck..
vchow:~# rm -f /quota.user
vchow:~# rm -f /quota.group
vchow:~# touch /aquota.user /aquota.group
vchow:~# chmod 600 /aquota.*
vchow:~# mount -o remount /
vchow:~# quotacheck -avugm
quotacheck: WARNING -  Quotafile //aquota.user was probably truncated. Can't sav                                              e quota settings...
quotacheck: WARNING -  Quotafile //aquota.group was probably truncated. Can't sa                                              ve quota settings...
quotacheck: Scanning /dev/hda1 [/] Cannot get exact used space... Results might                                               be inaccurate.
done
quotacheck: Checked 5456 directories and 32248 files
vchow:~# quotaon -avug
quotaon: Cannot find quota file on / [/dev/hda1] to turn quotas on/off.
quotaon: Cannot find quota file on / [/dev/hda1] to turn quotas on/off.


drwxr-xr-x  21 root root   4096 Dec 29 01:17 .
drwxr-xr-x  21 root root   4096 Dec 29 01:17 ..
-rw-------   1 root root  11264 Dec 29 01:13 aquota.group
-rw-------   1 root root  10240 Dec 29 01:13 aquota.user
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Dec 28 02:37 bin
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Apr 25  2004 boot
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Apr 25  2004 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root  20480 Dec 29 00:48 dev
drwxr-xr-x  64 root root   4096 Dec 29 01:12 etc
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Apr 25  2004 floppy
drwxrwsr-x   8 root staff  4096 Dec 27 00:21 home
drwxr-xr-x  16 root root   1024 Oct 14  2004 initrd
drwxr-xr-x   5 root root   4096 Dec 26 18:36 lib
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 May  2  2004 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 May  2  2004 mnt
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Apr 25  2004 opt
dr-xr-xr-x  86 root root      0 Dec 29 00:42 proc
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Dec 26 19:12 root
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Dec 26 18:36 sbin
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 May 10  2005 sys
drwxrwxrwt   4 root root   4096 Dec 29 00:48 tmp
drwxr-xr-x  13 root root   4096 Dec 26 21:20 usr
drwxr-xr-x  14 root root   4096 Dec 26 18:03 var


Can anyone help me:confused:

 

yes, I do..all execute under root access

 

Can you post your /etc/fstab here?

 

Here you go

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro,usrquota,grpquota 0 1
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=20 0 0
/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 /mnt ext3 defaults,noatime 0 0
~

 

Maybe this happens because of the "remount-read-only" option in your /etc/fstab...
Have you also tried to reboot the whole system instead of remounting the partition?

 

Hi,

I have the same problem.

# quotacheck -avugm
quotacheck: WARNING - Quotafile //quota.user was probably truncated. Can't save quota settings...
quotacheck: WARNING - Quotafile //quota.group was probably truncated. Can't save quota settings...
quotacheck: Scanning /dev/hda2 [/] quotacheck: error (6) while opening /dev/hda2
# quotaon -avug
quotaon: Cannot find quota file on / [/dev/hda2] to turn quotas on/off.
quotaon: Cannot find quota file on / [/dev/hda2] to turn quotas on/off.


Are you find a solution

Tanks
Cédric

 

Which distribution do you use?

 

Hi

I have a virtual server with debian 3.1 kernel 2.6

 

What's in /etc/fstab, and what's the output of

Code:

fdisk -l

?

 

File fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
#<file sys> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro,usrquota,grpquota 0 1
/swapfile none swap rw 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0

fdisk -l nothing display