Re: [webmin-l] Disk Quotas

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

On 23/May/2006 13:58 Marc Petitmermet wrote ..
> 
> 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.

Really? I may have to update Webmin then, as I am pretty sure that the
quotaon command used to look at /etc/fstab.

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

Yes, it would work fine in that case..

 - Jamie