So, anyone got any pointers to WTF the ext4 quota features are?

My google fu since to be failing, either that or I need to s/coffee/alcohol/ and come back next week


quotaon: Your kernel probably supports ext4 quota feature but you are using external quota files. Please switch your filesystem to use ext4 quota feature as
external quota files on ext4 are deprecated.


Also I see this
quotaon: Cannot stat() mounted device /dev/root: No such file or directory

...kinda funny since without /dev/sda1 aka /dev/root, the system wouldn't be there

Really. The very first search hit told me all there was to know about it: https://www.google.com/search?q=ext4...&oq=ext4+quota

if you are referencing this instruction " /dev/sda3 /home ext4 defaults,usrquota 0 2 "

THAT is what is giving the error,

/dev/sda5 /var/www ext4 defaults,usrquota 1 2

using that or even the old journalled quotas all result in the warning.
defaults,usrjquota=aquota.user,jqfmt=vfsv0(1) etc, same warning. journalled quotas are deprecated on ext4

I found some information:
https://fossies.org/linux/misc/quota...4.06/Changelog -> Changes in quota-tools from 4.05 to 4.06 -> quotacheck,quotaon: Suggest using quota feature for ext4 (Jan Kara)
https://fossies.org/diffs/quota/4.05...on.c-diff.html
Quota Kernel Module seems to be OK!
I still haven't found the solution here!
https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Quota
send me to e2fsprogs
https://sourceforge.net/projects/e2f...progs/v1.42.7/
where I find
and the Slackware e2fsprogs-1.45.6-x86_64-2 package is compiled without the --enable-quota option.
http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackwar...ogs.SlackBuild
If I try to compile with that option I get it:

The information about compiling e2fsprogs with the option is a bit confusing.
Solution for quota feature here.

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