quotas and reiserfs

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I believe reiserfs is supporting quotas by this time.
I think the quota is configured OK in my system, yet webmin can’t detect my file system as valid for quotas.

Is there any way I can trick it to believe so?

Greetings

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OK, changing webmin Disk & Network Filesystems config to check on /etc/mtab (instead of /etc/fstab) did the trick

hope it helps someone

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Hey Silvio,

Thanks for the tip. Althought, I’m a bit leery of recommending this method, since it will make the Disk and Network Filesystems module unable to edit things (mtab is an auto-generated list of mounted filesystems, while fstab is the human managed list of filesystem definitions–same format, but one gets overwritten whenever a new filesystem is mounted/umounted or the system reboots).

What’s in your /etc/fstab? I suspect we’re just having trouble parsing it correctly for some reason, and the mtab doesn’t have whatever extra stuff is confusing the parser.

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Looks like this is still an issue. Switching to /etc/mtab appears to have fixed it for me as well. On checking the contents of the files, fstab doesn’t actually include the usrquota & grpquota options. However, this is on a Virtuozzo hosted machine, so fstab is actually a link to /proc/mounts (I was instructed to set this to enable quotas), and I can’t / don’t need to deal with creating or editing mounts, so is there any problem with using mtab?

root@vps02:/etc# ll mtab fstab
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Nov 20 08:02 fstab -> /proc/mounts
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 252 Nov 18 14:07 mtab

root@vps02:/etc# cat mtab
/dev/vzfs / reiserfs rw,usrquota,grpquota 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,nodiratime 0 0
tmpfs /var/run tmpfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /var/lock tmpfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /var/run tmpfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /var/lock tmpfs rw 0 0

root@vps02:/etc# cat fstab
vzfs / vzfs rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,nodiratime 0 0
tmpfs /var/run tmpfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /var/lock tmpfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /var/run tmpfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /var/lock tmpfs rw 0 0

root@vps02:/etc# diff mtab fstab
1c1
< /dev/vzfs / reiserfs rw,usrquota,grpquota 0 0

> vzfs / vzfs rw 0 0
root@vps02:/etc#