Partitions & Quota

[LeoLinux]

Hi there,

I've mounted an other harddrive (nfs) for /var but from now on I'll get no more statistics. webalicer is dead... quota seems to be dead too.
What do I have to tell quota in the fstab? what is necessarry to type in the terminal to get it woring again?

#________________________________ Welcome to Server1 /etc/fstab _________________________________________#

/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro,usrquota,grpquota 1 2
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0

#_________________________________________________ _ /var/www ___________________________________________#

192.168.1.150:/mnt/2xIDE /var nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,hard,intr 0 0


^^ thats how it looks at the moment.


Thank you very much ;-)

Leander

[falko]

Can you access /var now? What's the output of ls -l /var?

[LeoLinux]

no I can't ;-) because I changed the conf for the post ;-)


but anyway - I did it like that now:

I created a folder /ISPconfig/www and told it ISPconfig during it's installation. Everything seems so work out so far but withou NFS. so for the first few weeks I want to use an internal harddrive which is mounted in /ISPconfig but I want to change that as soon as possible and want to use the storeage of an Fileserver which provides it's storage as NFS. But I can't fix the compatibility of quota and NFS.

this is an preview how my fstab could look like - I tried but it didn'd work out.

################ NAS Storage #############

192.168.1.150:/mnt/2xSATA /ISPconfig nfs auto,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,hard,intr,usrquota,grpq uota 0 0


but there is an rerror like "nfs unknown option quota" or something like that ... so I think there is anything missed ... - any idea, any experience? or how are you handling that? do you have your storages in your ISPconfig server internal or do you also have those external on a storage server?

thanks for helping ;-)

Leander

[falko]

I don't use NFS on my servers. ;)

[LeoLinux]

Thx for your information - but what else do you use?

the one and only reasen why I want to use NFS was -because I'm a noob and had some attribute problems with samba, sshfs, ftp mounts so in the end I tested NFS and all worked out fine - no problemes on my FreeNAS Server (It's a buggy NAS Server Distribution based on FreeBSD - but it's very nice and it's easy to handle... bla blub.. and so on ..)

so tell me your solution - I'm excited ;-)) because I guess you don't have 20 Harddrives in a few Raid configs on your machine where also ISPconfig is running at the same time - or do you ;-) ?


P.S. just a privat question - when did you start with Linux and such stuff like that?


Leander

;-)

[falko]

Thx for your information - but what else do you use?
My servers have two hard disks in a RAID 1 setup.

P.S. just a privat question - when did you start with Linux and such stuff like that?

About 10 years ago. :)

[LeoLinux]

hmm ok ... I also thought about such an solution ... but I want to use more space ;-) and I don't have for eg. 500 GB hdds so I thought of an NAS-Server with Raid 5 and a Gigabit Ethernet or something like that ... it's just quota and NFS which I'm to stupid to configure ;-)

but I'll see ... - I'm using one hdd atm ... but I'll change as soon as possible ....

Thx!

Leander

;-)

[falko]

I think you should have a look at LVM.
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/04/27/managing-disk-space-with-lvm.html

[LeoLinux]

Thx I've heard and read about LVM - it's a nice thing.
It would be great in combination with Raid 1 ;-) But I guess you only can use rsync for backup security ...

But I don't know why I don't want to have the Storage internal this ISPconfig Server. I guessed it would be more professional to have storeage servers external?!

And one big reason is that I have the ISPconfig Server running on a xen machine ... and the xen machine has no more IDE controller left .. and I didn't want to put one more PCI controller inside-because it's only an ATX tower which don't has tha much space left .... that's why I took another one and put some harddrives in, installed FreeNAS, created a Raid 5 and shared it firstly via ssh then samba, and finaly NFS.
Everything is working fine and fast except quota ;-)

why don't you use Storage Server for your projects? what's your pro and contra?

Thx

Leander

[falko]

why don't you use Storage Server for your projects? what's your pro and contra?

We use backup servers. Backups are done with rsync and MySQL dumps are taken from a MySQL replication slave.