quotacheck: Cannot find filesystem to check

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I am having a problem with the quote package and have been browsing google articles and only found articles telling me to insert the usrquota,grpquota which I have already inserted as seen below:

www:/# cat etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda6 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro,usrquota,grpquota 0 1
/dev/sda1 /boot ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/sda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

www:/# ls
backup.tgz dev initrd lib mnt quota.group sbin sys var
bin etc initrd.img lost+found opt quota.user selinux tmp vmlinuz
boot home initrd.img.old media proc root srv usr vmlinuz.old
www:/# chmod 600 /quota.*
www:/# mount -o remount /
www:/# quotacheck -avugm
quotacheck: Cannot find filesystem to check or filesystem not mounted with quota option.
www:/#

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Deleted entire line:
/dev/sda6 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro,usrquota,grpquota 0 1

and retyped it, saved, remounted, and all worked fine....

 

Hi,

I'm having the same problem (and others) and retyping the file, remounting, as you did the problem is still there.

Any help?

Thanks,
Nino

PS OS: Fedora 8 on a VPS

 

What exactly did you do, and what error message did you get?

 

Hi Falko,

I installed ISPConfig following this guide:
http://www.howtoforge.com/fedora-8-server-lamp-email-dns-ftp-ispconfig-p4

So I installed quota.

Then I changed my /etc/fstab into:

Code:

/dev/sda1       /             ext3     defaults,usrquota,grpquota  1 1
/dev/sda2       swap       swap    defaults                            0 0
LABEL=/boot    /boot       ext3     defaults                            1 2
tmpfs             /dev/shm  tmpfs   defaults                            0 0
devpts           /dev/pts   devpts  gid=5,mode=620                 0 0
sysfs             /sys         sysfs    defaults        0 0
proc              /proc        proc    defaults        0 0

Then I ran quota by:

Code:

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

But the quotacheck didn't work: "Cannot find filesystem to check or filesystem not mounted with quota option.".

Thank you very much for your attention and for the program!
Nino

 

Have you tried to reboot the system?

 

quotacheck prob

I am having the same exact problem. I am running Ubuntu.

Getting the same error:

quotacheck: Cannot find filesystem to check or filesystem not mounted with quota option.

I have indeed tried rebooting the system. Any other ideas?

Thanks in advance

 

I rebooted the system but the problem is still there

 

It's a VPS.

 

Quota wasn't already installed, because I asked the master server and he said I had to install it myself.

What can I do if my vps doen't support quota?

Thanks,
Nino

 

physical for mine and i have indeed altered fstab accordingly with no luck

 

mount -o remount /

yep

 

Ok... well somehow overnight, I had a visit from the unix god and he blessed off on me having quotas because I wake up this morning and right after replying to the post I go in and just have a look and whalla, they are enabled and working. I have no idea what happened but hey, who am I to question the all mighty unix god.

Anyways... onto my next question (thanks for the help above, greatly appreciated though)

I once had an account with a hosting server that had disk quotas, ram quotas, and cpu usage quotas enabled. Every time you logged in, it performed an output to your motd that showed you how much you were using and how much you were authorized to use, and if you were over, it told you. Any ideas if there is a way to alter and use quota for this, or how, or if there is some decent documentation on it? (you could also type quota and see the same thing when logged into the shell)

Thanks again in advance

 

Does that mean that I can't set resellers/clients or only that each reseller/client will have unlimited webspace and mailbox?

Thank you very much for you kind help!

Nino

 

Well since the VPS is not allowing you to install/configure Quotas... You have no way of automatically regulating the disk space etc. of the users/clients you set up. You can manually watch the accounts, or create a cron job to every so often run a check on the disk space used by each directory and e-mail you, but anything past that, its going to be somewhat manual as far as enforcing it. However, I would check with your vps provider and double check on the quota thing as I have been with MANY vps providers that do indeed allow you to set up quota programs, however, it has to be done a specific way and the admin has to be involved in the setup.

Hope this helps and does not hurt =P

 

I did two things when I encountered the problem others have experienced (error message when typing quotacheck -avugm) -- 1. I retyped my whole /etc/fstab by hand. 2. I added "c" to the command:

Code:

quotacheck -acvugm

and it worked. Just an FYI for others that may be experiencing this.

BTW, quotacheck took a looooooong time to complete, but my drive is 1TB so that may have had something to do with it.