Hi all,

I have a gentoo linux server at home, it runs Proftpd, apache2 etc.
but i want to give some users limited space to have on their folder.
(so their home map they are jailed in can't be greater than 2 gb's)

i found out about disk quota's. but if i'm correct i need to have a difirent partition with its own filesystem in order to use disk quota's?

so i'm asking if anyone knows an alternative so i can get this working?

thanks in advance.

greets Hum4ngus.

No, you should be able to add quotas to an existing filesystem. HowTo.

Ahh thnx.

but, i can't seem to get it working.
i already emerged quota-tools and then rebuiled my kernel so it supports quota's(and copied bzimage to /boot and edited /boot/grub/grub.conf), then i did rc-update add quota default.
and edited Fstab, this is what it looks like:

/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 suid,dev,noatime,exec,noauto 0 1
/dev/hda3 / ReiserFS noatime,usrquota 0 0
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0

but for example, when i do this "edquota -u testftp" it sais

No filesystems with quota detected.

and when i do this:

# /usr/sbin/quotacheck -avug
quotacheck: Can't find filesystem to check or filesystem not mounted with quota option.

hope you can help me

Did you START quota in addition to adding it to the default runlevel? (/etc/init.d/quota start)

yes it does start, it prints out this at boot:

* Checking quota's (may take a while)...
quotacheck: Can't find filesystem to check or filesystem not mounted with quota option.
* Starting quota [ok]

You may, though I'm not sure, need to touch /aquota.user and restart the quota service.

hmm, That file is empty. i don't know what to do with it.

All it should need to do is exist.

yes it does exist. but when i restart quota is prints out:

* Stopping quota... [ ok ]
* Checking quotas (may take a while)...
quotacheck: Can't find filesystem to check or filesystem not mounted with quota option. [ ok ]
* Starting quota... [ ok ]

so i think it has something to do with quota not being enabled on the filesystem?

What is the output of 'mount'?

I can't see any errors at boot, i did try this.

# umount /dev/hda3
umount: /: device is busy
umount: /: device is busy
# mount /dev/hda3 /
mount: /dev/hda3 already mounted or / busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/hda3 is already mounted on /

or did you mean something else?

just 'mount' by itself. It will show the state of currently mounted filesystems.

oh ok, here it is

/dev/hda3 on / type ReiserFS (rw,noatime,usrquota)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
none on /dev type ramfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)

Hrrm, as an interesting thought, you did enable quota support for reiserfs, right?

yes it is enabled in the kernel, here's an image

http://humster.nl/public/quota.jpg