Quota errors

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Hello,
My old box running ubuntu 8.04 had died, so i installed virtuamin on another box running 10.04, and restored from backup and everything is good, however when i go to change quota for email/ftp users to anything besides unlimited i get the following error

Failed to save mailbox : setquota: Quota file not found or has wrong format. setquota: Not all specified mountpoints are using quota.

here is the output for the mount

~$ mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,grpquota,errors=remount-ro,usrquota)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
none on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lib/ureadahead/debugfs type debugfs (rw,relatime)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/administrator/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=administrator)

EDIT: I did a quite abit of googling on this and seems like everyone with Ubuntu 10.04 is having this issue, is that true, or is there a way to actually fix this?

Thank you

Happy Thanksgiving.

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Howdy,

Hmm, in theory, quotas should work out of the box on Ubuntu 10.04.

Out of curiosity, are you using a VPS, or a dedicated server? We’ve seen some quota problems with certain VPS’s.

Also, if you look in Webmin -> System -> Disk Quotas, do they show up as being enabled there (ie, is the option under “Action” to disable quotas)?

-Eric

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It is a dedicated server.
under Webmin > System > Disk Quotas, in the Action column it says Enable Quotas, and when i click on it, it takes its sweet time and returns

quotaon: Cannot find quota file on / [/dev/sda1] to turn quotas on/off.

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What output do you get if you run the command “repquota -uga”?

-Eric

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i get the following output

~$ sudo repquota -uga
[sudo] password for administrator:
repquota: Quota file not found or has wrong format.
repquota: Quota file not found or has wrong format.