Re: Enable quota on a dd created and mounted disk.

[Gunther Furtado <gunfurtado@gmail.com>]

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2013/4/11 Luis H. Forchesatto <luisforchesatto@gmail.com>:
> Greetings.
>
> I mounted a disk on debian 6 that was created via dd command. The disk have
> an ext3 filesystem and a few files into it. In order to mount him at boot, I
> added this line to fstab:
>
> /storage/target01       /root/storage/  ext3    loop,offset=31744     0
> 2
>
> /storage/target01 = disk file (5gb)
> /root/storage = mount point
>
> Rebooted the system and it was mounted with no problem. Then, I proceeded to
> install the "quota" package and create the aquota.user, aquota.group,
> quota.user and quota.group files in order to activate the quotas on the
> filesystem. I also edited the fstab to enable quotas at boot:
>
> /storage/target01       /root/storage/  ext3
> loop,offset=31744,usrquota,grpquota     0       2
>
> I rebooted the system who booted with no erros, but when I try to manage the
> quotas I get those erros:
>
> # edquota -u someuser
> edquota: Cannot find any quota file to work on.
> No filesystems with quota detected.
>
> # quotaon /root/storage/
> quotaon: Cannot find quota file on /root/storage [/dev/loop0] to turn quotas
> on/off.
> quotaon: Cannot find quota file on /root/storage [/dev/loop0] to turn quotas
> on/off.
>
> # quotacheck -avugm
> quotacheck: Cannot guess format from filename on /dev/loop0. Please specify
> format on commandline.
> quotacheck: Cannot find filesystem to check or filesystem not mounted with
> quota option.
>
> Still searching but no clue why it doesn't work :(
>
> --
> Att.
> Luis H. Forchesatto



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