Subject: Re: [vserver] Quota problem kernel 2.6.20 vs 2.2.0.4
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:17:42 +0100

On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 08:07:57PM +0100, Olav Schwering wrote:
> Hi Herbert,
> 
> still have answer this one, was to busy the last week.
> 
> Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 09:13:22AM +0100, Olav Schwering wrote:
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> try get the quota working on my brand new gentoo build but had no
> >> success sofar  :-(
> >>
> >> Build a default host with gentoo vserver-sources 2.2.0-r1 and enabled
> >> quota settings in kernel. After reboot I made some test on the host on
> >> my ext3 partition I wanna use for my vserver guest. Sofar so good...
> >>
> >> Now I build a guest and entered the following commands:
> >>
> >>>> e2fsck -p /dev/partition
> >>>> mount /dev/partition /vserver/vs1
> >>>> rm -f /vservers/vs1/dev/hdv1
> >>>> vrsetup /dev/vroot1 /dev/partition
> >>>> cp -fa /dev/vroot1 /vservers/vs1/dev/hdv1
> >>>> echo "quota_ctl" >>/etc/vservers/vs1/ccapabilities
> >>>> echo "dev/hdv1 / ufs rw,usrquota,grpquota 0 0"
> > 	~~~~~~~~~~~
> > should be /dev/hdv1
> > 
> 
> of course, typo ;-)
> 
> >>>>>> /etc/vservers/vs1/apps/init/mtab
> >>>> vserver vs1 start
> >>>> vserver vs1 enter
> >> vs1>quotacheck -maugv -> build the usual quota files
> >> vs1>quotaon -va returned -> "Invalid argument"
> >>
> >> Tried it multiple ways and time, using a LVM or harddrive partition etc.
> >> It doesn't matter what I'm doing it fails  :-(
> >>
> >> Anyone out there who has it working and can give me some input what I'm
> >> doing wrong?
> > 
> > try mounting the filesystem with quota support i.e. 
> > mount -o grpquota,usrquota /dev/partition /vserver/vs1
> > mount -o quota /dev/partition /vserver/vs1
> 
> Made a couple of tests and both options are working for me. The thing is
> you have to do follow up the right procedure and don't forget to edit
> the mtab. Would say that should be updated in the wiki...

please do that then ..

TIA,
Herbert

> > if that doesn't help, enable Linux-VServer debugging
> > and pay a visit to the IRC channel
> > 
> 
> Not needed right now but may be later.
> 
> 
> Greetings
> 
> 
> 
> 			OSCH
>