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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 :)

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Originally Posted by Nobby6 (Post 6189152)

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

My google fu since to be failing

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

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Originally Posted by Alien Bob (Post 6189188)

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

Quote:

Your kernel probably supports ext4 quota feature but you are using external quota files.

Quota Kernel Module seems to be OK!

Code:

find /lib/modules/`uname -r` -type f -name '*quota_v*.ko*'

Quote:

/lib/modules/5.4.81/kernel/fs/quota/quota_v1.ko
/lib/modules/5.4.81/kernel/fs/quota/quota_v2.ko

Quote:

Please switch your filesystem to use ext4 quota feature as external quota files on ext4 are deprecated.

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

Quote:

If e2fsprogs is compiled without --enable-quota, make sure that
tune2fs can not turn on the feature for new-style quota support, since
afterwards, none of the e2fsprogs tools will be willing to touch that
file system.

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:

Quote:

configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --enable-quota

Quote:

Originally Posted by teoberi (Post 6191573)

Code:

find /lib/modules/`uname -r` -type f -name '*quota_v*.ko*'

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:

Quote:

configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --enable-quota

The information about compiling e2fsprogs with the

Quote:

--enable quota

option is a bit confusing.:)
Solution for quota feature here.