Re: [webmin-l] Disk Quotas

[Marc P. <pet...@ma...>]

On 23. Mai 2006, at 20:46 Uhr, Jamie Cameron wrote:

> 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.

This is not true, at least in our case. All quota commands work  
perfectly.

Would Webmin work if we had the filesystems in /etc/fstab but with  
the noauto option?

> 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 :)

The filesystems in question are several raid systems which we only  
want to mount when certain conditions are met.

Regards,
Marc