Bug#249199: Flag usrquota/grpquota should check for quota support

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 12:15:08AM +0200, Johannes Lundberg wrote:
> Package: partman-reiserfs
> Version: 20040515
> 
> Flagging a reiserfs filesystem as usrquota/grpquota causes mount to fail
> if the kernel doesn't have reiserfs quota support, which the
> 2.6-kernel in the new Debian Installer doesn't have (version 2.6.5-1).
> This problem does probably exist for other filesystems too. Checking for
> quota support for the filesystem type might be an idea.

It's in 2.6.7, so I guess this doesn't matter quite so much any more. Do
you have any idea how to detect this support without actually trying to
create and mount a partition, though?

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]