Need help with quota on fedora core 11

[saco721]

I am a Linux newbie running Fedora core 11 and having difficulties getting quota to work. Here's what I have done so far:

I do :

yum install quota

Installs quota fine.

Then I edit fstab :

#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Thu Feb 11 10:05:18 2010
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or vol_id(8) for more info
#
UUID=cfdb7341-115f-4238-990d-3ee95d311e45 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/mapper/vg_gizmo-lv_root / ext4 defaults,usrquota,grpquota 1 1
/dev/mapper/vg_gizmo-lv_swap swap swap defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

Then run :

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

The aquota.user and aquota.group files get created.

File system mounts ok.

However when I run quotacheck -avugm I get the following messages :

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: Cannot open quotafile //aquota.user: Permission denied
quotacheck: Cannot open quotafile //aquota.group: Permission denied

When I run quotaon -avug I get the following messages :

quotaon: Cannot open quotafile //aquota.group: Permission denied
quotaon: Cannot find quota file on / [/dev/mapper/vg_gizmo-lv_root] to turn quotas on/off.
quotaon: Cannot open quotafile //aquota.user: Permission denied
quotaon: Cannot find quota file on / [/dev/mapper/vg_gizmo-lv_root] to turn quotas on/off.

Then I reboot the system.

Nothing is written to aquota.user or aquota.group. And I still get the error messages as above.

To me it seems that there may be a problem with permissions on / file system but i'm not sure what they should be.

Where am I going wrong?

Any ideas / advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[falko]

Can you try to set up journaled quota, as described in chapter 7 on http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-se...ispconfig-2-p3 ?

[saco721]

Hi Falko, I have edited my fstab to use journaled quota as you advised.

I changed fstab to :

#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Thu Feb 11 10:05:18 2010
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or vol_id(8) for more info
#
UUID=cfdb7341-115f-4238-990d-3ee95d311e45 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/mapper/vg_gizmo-lv_root / ext4 defaults,usrjquota=aquota.user,grpjquota=aquota.gr oup,jqfmt=vsfv0 1 1
/dev/mapper/vg_gizmo-lv_swap swap swap defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

Then I rebooted system and did :

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

quotacheck -avugm returns :

quotacheck: WARNING- Quotafile //aquota.user was probably truncated. Cannot save quota settings...

quotacheck: WARNING- Quotafile //aquota.group was probably truncated. Cannot save quota settings...

quotacheck: Scanning /dev/mapper/vg_gizmo-lv_root [/] quotacheck : lstat Cannot stat '//home/Eden/./gvfs' : Permission denied Guess you'd better run fsck first !
exiting...

quotaon -avug returns :

quotaon: Cannot find quota file on / [/dev/mapper/vg_gizmo-lv_root] to turn quotas on/off.
quotaon: Cannot find quota file on / [/dev/mapper/vg_gizmo-lv_root] to turn quotas on/off.

Tried rebooting and still get errors.

[falko]

Is it

/dev/mapper/vg_gizmo-lv_root / ext4 defaults,usrjquota=aquota.user,grpjquota=aquota.gr oup,jqfmt=vsfv0 1 1

?
Should be

/dev/mapper/vg_gizmo-lv_root / ext4 defaults,usrjquota=aquota.user,grpjquota=aquota.group,jqfmt=vsfv0 1 1

(without space in aquota.group).

[saco721]

Hi Falko,

Its definately

/dev/mapper/vg_gizmo-lv_root / ext4 defaults,usrjquota=aquota.user,grpjquota=aquota.group,jqfmt=vsfv0 1 1

dont know why space appeared in group.