quota with different partitions/drives

[ustoopia]

Hi everybody

I installed ispconfig on a debian etch server that has two hard drives. swap and / are located on the first drive (hda) On the second drive (hdb) I mounted two partitions as /home and /var. Since all the websites will be places in /var/www I was wondering how I should setup the quota. I already setup qouta for /, but since /var is located on a different partition on a complete other drive I was wondering if I should also enable quota for those partitions.

Here is what my /etc/fstab looks like now

/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro,usrquota,grpquota 0 1
/dev/hdb2 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hdb1 /var ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda1 none swap sw 0 0

Before I go ahead and do what I think has to be done I thought I post a message here or else I might **** things up again.
I believe I will have to add ,usrquota,grpquota to the /var partition is that correct? Here's what I believe it should look like. Please correct me if I'm wrong...

/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro,usrquota,grpquota 0 1
/dev/hdb2 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hdb1 /var ext3 defaults,usrquota,grpquota 0 2
/dev/hda1 none swap sw 0 0

Any reply will be greatly appreciated
Keep up the good work ;-)

[till]

Yes, the second config looks fine. Quota must be anebled for /var too.

[lubos]

Hi Till, please can you check following:

this are my partitions on two servers and what i believe it should look like.

Server1
Note: partition /var/www is mounted by s-link onto /www and chmoded to 775 to make sure that it can be accessible ;)

# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro,usrquota,grpquota 0 1
/dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda7 /tmp ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda5 /usr ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda6 /var ext3 defaults,usrquota,grpquota 0 2
/dev/hda3 /www ext3 defaults,usrquota,grpquota 0 2
/dev/hda8 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0

and second:

# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro,usrquota,grpquota 0 1
/dev/hda7 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hdb1 /mail_backup ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda6 /tmp ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda5 /usr ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda3 /var ext3 defaults,usrquota,grpquota 0 2
/dev/hdb3 /www-backup ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda8 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdb2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0

I am pretty sure that this is right :cool:... but I started on Linux only in October 2007..:o

Thanx upfront.

[falko]

Looks ok. :)

[hardly]

I'm trying to enable quota for multiple partitions.
The quota.user and quota.group files should be placed on partitions other than / if you want to enable quota for them, correct? That is aside from adding the ',usrquota,grpquota' bit to those lines in /etc/fstab.

I'm receiving weird output.

# vim /etc/fstab
# touch /quota.user /quota.group /var/quota.user /var/quota.group /home/quota.user /home/quota.group
# chmod 600 /quota.*
# mount -o remount /
# chmod 600 /home/quota.*
# mount -o remount /home
# chmod 600 /var/quota.*
# mount -o remount /var
# quotacheck -avugm
quotacheck: Your kernel probably supports journaled quota but you are not using it. Consider switching to journaled quota to avoid running quotacheck after an unclean shutdown.
quotacheck: WARNING - Quotafile /var/quota.user was probably truncated. Cannot save quota settings...
quotacheck: WARNING - Quotafile /var/quota.group was probably truncated. Cannot save quota settings...
quotacheck: Scanning /dev/sda4 [/var] done
quotacheck: Checked 144 directories and 2812 files

Shouldn't there be something like the "Scannig /dev/sda4 [/var] done" for the other two partitions I'm trying to use quota on?

Interesting lines in /etc/fstab
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
UUID=673e37c2-f61e-4f36-b63d-08cab35a703a / ext4 relatime,errors=remount-ro,usrquota,grpquota 0 1
UUID=3eb8e733-527a-4c9e-b468-122ec877cba8 /home ext4 relatime,usrquota,grpquota 0 2
UUID=c86361ff-f9f8-4921-a4f6-2769f579ef23 /tmp ext3 relatime 0 2
UUID=601b8582-5aed-4efb-8efe-3de3bd411832 /usr ext3 relatime 0 2
UUID=5b1f7704-a03b-4d9b-b29a-721de8e149ba /var ext3 relatime,usrquota,grpquota 0 2
UUID=1fcb9e95-acac-445e-a733-53291d727874 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

Is there something that I'm missing?

[Also]
# quotaon -avug
/dev/sda4 [/var]: group quotas turned on
/dev/sda4 [/var]: user quotas turned on
with no mention of / or /home.
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I've decided to go ahead and put /home/me on my own partition and only use 1 partition for everything else in /. THat is way simpler and is really what I was going for.
Still though, why was I getting those results, if anyone is willing to subject me to their thoughts on the matter. :D
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'nother edit.

I'm using ext4. before, /var was on ext3, but / and /home were ext4. That's the problem. And I'm having way too much trouble with 64bit ubuntu server. So I guess I'll be starting over with the lowest common denomerator. <-- yeah, I'm just gonna leave it that way. lol