Disk quota error

Error with system Quotas
setquota: Mountpoint (or device) / not found or has no quota enabled. setquota: Not all specified mountpoints are using quota.

i try with this

http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=42

my fstab ia having
none /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0

any help what i need to do
my server is centos 6 32 bit

Your fstab is only having those 2 lines? That's not much.
And what does your /etc/mtab have?

You can also put the output of df -h here.

Richard G said:

Your fstab is only having those 2 lines? That's not much.
And what does your /etc/mtab have?

You can also put the output of df -h here.

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/etc/mtab

/dev/simfs / simfs rw,relatime 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /dev devtmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=500 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,relatime 0 0

df -h
/dev/simfs 120G 1.8G 119G 2% /
none 512M 4.0K 512M 1% /dev
none 512M 0 512M 0% /dev/shm

You have to ask your hosting provider to enable quotas on your file system.

/dev/simfs 120G 1.8G 119G 2% /

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From the DA help section you pointed to:

*** Note: If you're running a VPS with a "simfs" file system, quotas usually cannot be enabled with normal means. Contact your VPS provider to enable quotas for you.

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So Chatwizrd is correct, you have to ask your vps provider.

rm -rf /usr/sbin/setquota
ln -s /usr/local/sbin/setquota /usr/sbin/setquota
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxquota/files/quota-tools/3.13/quota-3.13.tar.gz/download
tar -xzvf quota-3.13.tar.gz
cd quota-tools/
./configure --enable-proc-mounts=/etc/mtab
make
make install
quotacheck -acugv

[reboot VPS/SERVER]
touch /home/quota.user
touch /home/quota.group
chmod 600 /home/quota.user
chmod 600 /home/quota.group
quotacheck -acugv

Patrick Ekkel said:

rm -rf /usr/sbin/setquota
ln -s /usr/local/sbin/setquota /usr/sbin/setquota
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxquota/files/quota-tools/3.13/quota-3.13.tar.gz/download
tar -xzvf quota-3.13.tar.gz
cd quota-tools/
./configure --enable-proc-mounts=/etc/mtab
make
make install
quotacheck -acugv

[reboot VPS/SERVER]
touch /home/quota.user
touch /home/quota.group
chmod 600 /home/quota.user
chmod 600 /home/quota.group
quotacheck -acugv

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Do not follow this guide this is all wrong.

This HOWTO fixed the same problem.
I dont post a fix wat not work

Yes, You will have to enable quotas for your VPS through your provider.

Patrick Ekkel said:

This HOWTO fixed the same problem.
I dont post a fix wat not work

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That won't help to enable quotas in OpenVZ container, if the second level quotas are disabled. Only a hosting provider, or a person who manages the master node is able to switch on the second level quotas for a VPS.

edit: The users were originally added by means of Admin transfer/backup and then restoring them to the new server.

edit2: I cannot believe this! After I had my lunch and logged in the numbers were correct everywhere and I am not getting any error messages. Sigh!!

I leave the message below, however, for others to scratch their heads....

I am experiencing the same problem here, running a Centos 6.2 KVM box with kernel 2.6.32. My fstab has a line like this:


I can change quotas manually (edquota <user>) and repquota works just fine but from DA I keep getting this message:

"setquota: Quota file not found or has wrong format. setquota: Not all specified mountpoints are using quota."

The quota directory in directadmin.conf is correctly set to "/"

Also, when checking the details I get the message "Systems Quotas are size 0"

The funny thing is that when creating a user the quota is set correctly but it cannot be changed from DA later. So what on earth is going on? The only difference I with my backup server (where the quota stuff works) is the ext4 file system.

Also, when running a quotacheck and the "tally" stuff after that I got a message from diradmin telling me that my test site user had used 98.8% of the disk space available. The numbers are, however, completely different:

- Quota: 1000 MB in DA, repquota telling me the same (1024000)
- DA control panel showing usage as 157 MB
- The real usage, however in /home/mystestsite is 878 MB and it cannot be seen anywhere
- 878 + databases+apache owned stuff results in the correct number (~99.8%)
- emails are not counted

This is a bit annoying: I cannot see the status from the users list. the only way to get reliable results from the home directory disk usage is run a

Hello,

To clarify, DA is running the following to set the quotas on an account: so.. if you've edited the /usr/sbin/setquota binary, and made a wrapper, that could "hide" the error (if it exit's with 0), but does not necessarily mean the quotas are working.

If you've only got a / partition, use this to see if it's working.. which is what DA calls: which must display the standard quota output, for all Users.

John