as some of you are aware. getting disk quota's working in ubuntu on ec2 instances is a nightmare. especially now with the aws tuned kernels. well, I got this set of instructions direct from aws support, I've tried it out and can confirm it all works. (with some caveats which are commented in below) # Locate package with quota modules $ dpkg -S quota_v2.ko linux-modules-extra-4.15.0-24-generic: /lib/modules/4.15.0-24-generic/kernel/fs/quota/quota_v2.ko I didn't get this list of modules, just an empty response, but it proper 'men don't need instructions' fashion, I ploughed on regardless. # Verify the latest/stable version of Linux kernel $ apt-cache search linux-generic # Remove linux-aws kernel package $ sudo apt-get remove linux-image-4.15.0-1011-aws # Install new kernel $ sudo apt-get -y install linux-image-generic I tested on a newly created instance in eu-west-1b, using the 18.04 ami provided by canonical in the aws marketplace. it started with Linux-image-4.15.0-0-1009-aws, so I had to remove that one first, which auto-installed 4-15.0-1011-aws, which I then also removed as per the instructions. # Reboot $ sudo reboot # After reboot load the modules $ sudo modprobe quota_v1 $ sudo modprobe quota_v2 # Verify it is working $cat /proc/modules | grep -i quota quota_v2 16384 2 - Live 0x0000000000000000 quota_tree 20480 1 quota_v2, Live 0x0000000000000000 quota_v1 16384 0 - Live 0x0000000000000000 $quotaon -pa group quota on / (/dev/xvda1) is on user quota on / (/dev/xvda1) is on project quota on / (/dev/xvda1) is off obviously, all of this is assuming you've also installed quota and quotatool and edited /etc/fstab as per the perfect server tutorials.
