Re: [webmin-l] Disk Quotas

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 23/May/2006 13:40 Marc Petitmermet wrote ..
> 
> On 23. Mai 2006, at 19:37 Uhr, Jamie Cameron wrote:
> 
> > On 23/May/2006 12:20 Marc Petitmermet wrote ..
> >>
> >> On 23. Mai 2006, at 18:52 Uhr, Jamie Cameron wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 23/May/2006 07:46 Marc Petitmermet wrote ..
> >>>> Dear List Members
> >>>>
> >>>> The "Disk Quotas" module tells me "No local filesystems can support
> >>>> quotas". But this is not true! because in the "Disk and Network
> >>>> Filesystems" I see for each local file system that quotas are  
> >>>> enabled
> >>>> for "User and Group". This is RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 Up 2. Am I
> >>>> doing something wrong?
> >>>
> >>> What type of filesystem are you trying to enable quotas on?
> >>> The problem may be that it is one of the types not supported by
> >>> Webmin ..
> >>> right now, only quotas on ext2, ext3 and xfs are handled.
> >>
> >> It is ext3...
> >
> > That should work then ..
> > What does the /etc/fstab file contain on your system?
> 
> Ah, this might be the problem. We do not use /etc/fstab to mount the  
> disks, we use custom made shell scripts which mounts the filesystems  
> we want under certain conditions. Is an entry in /etc/fstab really  
> necessary? After all "Disk and Network Filesystems" knows already if  
> and what quotas are enabled...

Yes, in the current design on Webmin /etc/fstab is needed. In fact, many
commands like quotaon/quotaoff won't enable quotas unless they can find an
entry in /etc/fstab.

I strongly recommend using it where you can, and only using a custom script
to mount filesystems that cannot be handled by /etc/fstab for some reason ..
otherwise you are re-inventing the wheel :)

 - Jamie