Google Cloud Compute - Failed to Turn on Quotas. Quota format not supported in kernel

Webmin
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Failed to turn on quotas : quotaon: using //aquota.user on /dev/sda1 [/]: No such process quotaon: Quota format not supported in kernel

~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 841M 0 841M 0% /dev
tmpfs 170M 14M 157M 8% /run
/dev/sda1 9.7G 2.6G 7.1G 27% /
tmpfs 848M 0 848M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 848M 0 848M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 170M 0 170M 0% /run/user/1001

:~$ mount
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=860920k,nr_inodes=215230,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=173668k,mode=755)
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,quota,usrquota,grpquota,data=ordered)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k)
tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,release_a
gent=/lib/systemd/systemd-cgroups-agent,name=systemd)
pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu,cpuacct
)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,perf_event)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls,net_prio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls,net_prio)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/pids type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,pids)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,hugetlb)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/memory type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory)
hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)
systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=32,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=10378)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,relatime)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime)
configfs on /sys/kernel/config type configfs (rw,relatime)
lxcfs on /var/lib/lxcfs type fuse.lxcfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other)
tmpfs on /run/user/1001 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=173668k,mode=700,uid=1001,g
id=1002)

:~$ cat /etc/fstab
LABEL=cloudimg-rootfs / ext4 relatime,usrquota,data=ordered,rw,grpquota 0 0

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Webmin>System>Bootup and Shutdown> (i try to enable the following quota services, however this is the result after doing that)

Is this error because i have disabled Mailman?
I assumed that the filesystem quota is not reliant on mailman?

quota	Enable user quota	No	No
quotaon.service	Enable File System Quotas	Always	No
quotarpc	Starts rpc process for remote quota handling	No	No
quotarpc.service	RPC Remote Quota Server	Yes	No

– Unit quotaon.service has begun starting up.
May 08 01:14:31 goanna1 quotaon[15724]: quotaon: using //aquota.group on /dev/sda1 [/]: No such process
May 08 01:14:31 goanna1 quotaon[15724]: quotaon: Quota format not supported in kernel.
May 08 01:14:31 goanna1 quotaon[15724]: quotaon: using //aquota.user on /dev/sda1 [/]: No such process
May 08 01:14:31 goanna1 quotaon[15724]: quotaon: Quota format not supported in kernel.
May 08 01:14:31 goanna1 systemd[1]: quotaon.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT
May 08 01:14:31 goanna1 systemd[1]: Failed to start Enable File System Quotas.
– Subject: Unit quotaon.service has failed
– Defined-By: systemd
– Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

– Unit quotaon.service has failed.

– The result is failed.
May 08 01:14:31 goanna1 systemd[1]: quotaon.service: Unit entered failed state.
May 08 01:14:31 goanna1 systemd[1]: quotaon.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.

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That mailman link is for the systemd mailing list. It has nothing to do with Mailman. And, no quotas have nothing to do with Mailman.

I’m not sure why quotas wouldn’t work on GCE…but, it may be that they just don’t support them in their kernel. If you can’t get quotas turned on even after rebooting, it may just be a feature you don’t have. Virtualmin manages kernel quotas…if the kernel doesn’t support quotas, it can’t manage them. Virtualmin can do soft quotas, without kernel support, but it’s not realtime (users can create files well above their quota size and it can take a while for Virtualmin to notice).

Might be worth googling to see if others have had success turning on quotas on their GCE systems (just turning on quotas and using them is not a Virtualmin specific issue, so you don’t need to include Virtualmin in your search terms to find useful info). I couldn’t find anything in a cursory search, and I don’t currently have a GCE account for testing…so, I’m just guessing.

Try rebooting. Try turning them off and on in the Webmin Disk Quotas module, and rebooting again. If that doesn’t do it, I dunno.