[CentOS] quota doesn't appear to work - repquota only updates when quotacheck is run

[Alexander Rusa]

I found the solution.

For some reason quota was turned off although it was turned on some time ago.

You can find this out using:

# quotaon -ap
group quota on / (/dev/xvda1) is on
user quota on / (/dev/xvda1) is on
group quota on /chroot/home (/dev/xvda3) is off
user quota on /chroot/home (/dev/xvda3) is off

And solve the problem using

# quotaon -g /dev/path
or
# quotaon -u /dev/path

Regards,

Alex


Am 16.09.2014 um 11:36 schrieb Alexander Rusa <alexander.rusa at emerion.com>:

> Hi,
> I have exactly the same problem that you experienced in Nov, 2013.
> I am using ext4 with journaled quota and the quota usage is only updating when I run quotacheck manually.
> Have you found a solution?
> Regards,
> Alex
> 
>> I have set up user quotas on an ext4 filesystem.  It does not appear that
>> the quota system is being updated, except when I manually run quotacheck.
>> 
>> More detail: I run "warnquota -s" from a script in /etc/cron.daily.  I
>> noticed that no one had received an "over quota" message in a long time.
>> Using "repquota -as", it indeed looked as though everyone was under their
>> quotas.  But "du" showed many people were over quota.  So I did a "quotaoff
>> -a ; quotacheck -vam ; quotaon -a".  That night, several
>> warnquota-generated messages went out.  My users diligently cleaned up
>> their homes.  Fast forward 24 hours, and the users received the same
>> warnquota emails.  repquota showed them as being over, but "du" told a
>> different story.
>> 
>> System is CentOS 6.3, kernel 2.6.32-279.2.1.el6.x86_64.
>> 
>> # dmesg | grep -i quota
>> VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2
>> 
>> 
>> The partition is type ext4 mounted at /share:
>> 
>> # cat /proc/mounts | grep share
>> /dev/mapper/VolGroup_Share-LogVol_Share /share ext4
>> rw,noatime,nodiratime,barrier=0,nobh,data=writeback,jqfmt=vfsv0,usrjquota=aquota.user
>> 0 0
>> 
>> The ext4 volume sits on top of an lvm logical partion.  That logical volume
>> ultimately sits on top of an encrypted disk using cryptsetup luksFormat:
>> 
>> # lvscan
>>  ACTIVE            '/dev/VolGroup_Share/LogVol_Share' [4.48 TiB] inherit
>> 
>> # pvscan
>>  PV /dev/mapper/luks-7f865362-ee9f-40de-bc07-73701b4662f3   VG
>> VolGroup_Share   lvm2 [4.48 TiB / 0    free]
>> 
>> Is there something in my ext4 mount options that is incompatible with
>> quota?  Or maybe the encrypted layer is causing problems?  Am I missing
>> something else?
>> 
>> Thanks!
> 
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