Trouble with quota's

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DJSnels

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Hi all,

today i wanted to edit a user package and the following error came up:

An error has occurred

Details

Error with system Quotas
setquota: Can't stat() mounted device /dev/root: No such file or directory setquota: Mountpoint (or device) / not found. setquota: Not all specified mountpoints are using quota.
Debug Guide

The debugging guide doesn't help.
Here some extra info:

fstab:

/dev/xvda2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro,usrquota,grpquota,barrier=0 0 0
/dev/xvda1 none swap defaults 0 0
/var/tmpMnt /tmp ext2 loop,noexec,nosuid,rw 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0

mtab:
/dev/xvda2 / ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro,usrquota,grpquota,barrier=0 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/var/tmpMnt /tmp ext2 rw,noexec,nosuid,loop=/dev/loop0 0 0
none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0


[root@srv03 ~]# /usr/sbin/repquota /
repquota: Can't stat() mounted device /dev/root: No such file or directory
repquota: Mountpoint (or device) / not found.
repquota: Not all specified mountpoints are using quota.

[root@srv03 ~]# /sbin/quotaoff -a
quotaoff: Can't stat() mounted device /dev/root: No such file or directory
[root@srv03 ~]# /sbin/quotaon -a
quotaon: Can't stat() mounted device /dev/root: No such file or directory

what can be the issue?
It's a VPS which is running for over a year now, but this error seems to start a few weeks back.
 
zEitEr said:
Hello,

Try

Code: 
ln -s /dev/xvda /dev/root

Check this http://forum.directadmin.com/showthread.php?t=45746&p=234386#post234386
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[root@srv03 ~]# ln -s /dev/xvda /dev/root
[root@srv03 ~]# /usr/sbin/repquota /
repquota: Can't stat() mounted device /dev/root: No such file or directory
repquota: Mountpoint (or device) / not found.
repquota: Not all specified mountpoints are using quota.
[root@srv03 ~]#

My OS is CentOS btw

[root@srv03 ~]# cat /etc/*release*
CentOS release 5.9 (Final)

[root@srv03 ~]# uname -a
Linux server.hostname.com 3.2.2 #3 SMP Thu Jan 26 20:17:45 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
 
zEitEr said:
Did you follow the link posted above? Did you read the thread?
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Yes,
i also checked fstab / mtab for dual / partitions.
i didn't add it to rc.local and rebooted, since it should work without for now?
 
zEitEr said:
OK, try this then

Code: 
rm -f /dev/root
ln -s /dev/xvda2 /dev/root
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YES!
that worked.
but the cause of the problem is not clear for me. Why was the link to /dev/root incorrect?
do i need to aad it to rc.local?
 
Why was the link to /dev/root incorrect?
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You have no /dev/xvda, but /dev/xvda2

do i need to aad it to rc.local?
Click to expand...

Yes, you might need to re-add it.

but the cause of the problem is not clear for me.
Click to expand...

That might be related to changes done to quota tools, which since the version 4.00-pre1 changed the default scan path to /proc/mounts instead to /etc/mtab

Just check your output

Code: 
cat /proc/mounts
 
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