Disk quotas do not work in ext4

[ignasi]

Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release: 9.04

Disk quotas do not seem to work for ext4. cat /etc/fstab | grep /dev/md2 shows:

/dev/md2 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,quota,usrquota,grpquota)

root@isp0:/# quotacheck -avugm
quotacheck: Cannot find filesystem to check or filesystem not mounted with quota option.

[Laurent Dinclaux (dreadlox)]

I confirm.

Wouldn't that be the fix: http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=122532700130950&w=2 ?

[JanG (jan-ge)]

why is quota not updated in ubuntu when there is a fix for this bug?

[JanG (jan-ge)]

using quota in version 3.17-2 from karmic repos fixes this for me, so quota should at least be backported for jaunty.

[Almacha (almacha)]

I confirm ext4 quotas work on karmic but not on jaunty.

My quota version on jaunty: 3.16-7
My quota version on karmic: 3.17-3

[BenKochie (ben-nerp)]

Also confirmed fixed with backported 3.17-3.

From the upstream changelog:

Changes in quota-tools from 3.16 to 3.17
* add EXT4 (not only EXT4DEV) to the list of supported filesystems (Mingming Cao)

It would be nice to have quota 3.17 backported to Jaunty.

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Fixed for karmic. This is probably a good candiate for an SRU.

Regards
chuck

[Vinyo (vinyo)]

I have changed my debian server to Ubuntu-server (jaunty).
It would be importance for me to work the qouta, because there are many users on my server.

Updated my qouta 3.16x to 3.17-3 and then 3.17-5 but still not work correctly.

I tried it with webmin and with edquota,

I set up qouta for a test user with the following settings:
Block soft limit 10000 (10MB), hard limit 20000 (20MB),
File soft limit 5 and hard limit 10
Grace time: 10 minutes.

The file limit works fine: if user reach the hard limit, ubuntu don't allow to create new file or directory. (mesg :Disk qouta exceeded)
But if block hard limit exceeded (without reaching file limits) the users can create new file, but cannot create new directory (in his home direcotry.)
If I check this user's qouta it can be seen that quota is exceeded.

I reformatted this parttition with ext3 fs, and everything works fine.

I would like to know when there will be a solution for this case?
Is there any now?

[Almacha (almacha)]

I tried to reproduce Vinyo's bug but I could not.

I use Ubuntu karmic i386, quota version is 3.17-3ubuntu1.

1. I formated 2 partitions, one with ext3 and the other with ext4.
2. I added them to /etc/fstab with options rw,usrquota.
3. I ran quotacheck -a and rebooted by computer.
4. I used edquota to set a block hard limit of 10MB to my user on both partitions.
5. I tried creating a too big file on each of these two partitions with my user. It stopped when the block hard limit was reached, complaining about disk quota being exceeded.

So I had the same (correct) behaviour with both ext3 and ext4.

[Thomas Schweikle (tps)]

Same problem with later Ubuntu-Versions. Quota does not work as expected:
!root@ilx01:/# ls -la /users
!total 32
!drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2011-02-15 18:02 .
!drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096 2011-07-14 11:04 ..
!drwxr-xr-x 59 root root 4096 2011-08-31 11:53 dirs
!drwxr-xr-x 59 root root 4096 2011-08-31 11:53 home
!drwx------ 2 root root 16384 2011-02-15 17:50 lost+found
!-rw------- 1 root root 0 2011-09-05 18:23 quota.group
!-rw------- 1 root root 0 2011-09-05 18:23 quota.user

!root@ilx01:/# quotacheck -g -u -c -m -v -a
!quotacheck: Skipping 192.168.180.2:/share/xlxctmpl [/opt/xlxctmpl]
!quotacheck: Cannot find filesystem to check or filesystem not mounted with quota option.

!root@ilx01:/# mount
![...]
!/dev/mapper/vg00-users on /users type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro,usrquota,grpquota)

!root@ilx01:/# cat /etc/mtab
![...]
!/dev/mapper/vg00-users /users ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro,usrquota,grpquota 0 0

!root@ilx01:/# cat /proc/mounts
![...]
!/dev/mapper/vg00-users /users ext4 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,barrier=1,data=ordered,usrquota,grpquota 0 0

[Thomas Schweikle (tps)]

I had to restart the whole machine to make it work. It did not help to

! umount /users
! mount /users