quotas on nfs share

[Rick Stevens]

Aldo Foot wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Sam Varshavchik<mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:
>> It seems to me that quotas, if any, would need to be enabled or implemented
>> on the server, and not the client. This client has no clue, of course, if
>> any other client is mounting the same export on the server. Some other
>> client may very well be creating files, using the same userid, which impacts
>> the user's quota.
>>
>> Therefore, logically, if there's something that needs to be done to
>> implement quotas, you'll want to look on the server, not the cient.
> _____
> 
> You're correct. All quota setup is done at the server. That's what
> I've done. Quotas
> are working in the server.
> 
> I put this line on the server's /etc/fstab.
>   "/dev/hdd5      /mnt/p1                 ext3
> defaults,usrquota,grpquota 1 2"
> 
> The mount command does have a "usrquota" mount option. See man page.

The man page states that "usrquota" is only valid for affs,
ext2/ext3/ext4, jfs, and xfs filesystems.

> I used that option; see previous email. So when you mount at the client, you
> tell it you want to use quotas with the "usrquota" option.
> 
> Also, /etc/exports says that "usrquota" is not an export option.
> 
> Even though I mount with the usrquota option, the client does not see a
> filesystem with quotas.
> 
> client> edquota jdoe
> No filesystems with quota detected.
> 
> client> quotacheck -cugm /mnt/p1
> quotacheck: Cannot find filesystem to check or filesystem not mounted
> with quota option.
> 
> I'd really love to solve this one. According to me eSearch, just about
> everyone who ever tried to solve this problem, went out without an answer.
> This fedora list has to have something...  ;-)
> 
> thanks a bunch for the reply.

Have you tried "quotaon /NFS/mountpoint" on the client?
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