How do you fix Linux Quota?
- "group block limit reached" error.
[userA@groupA1]$ cat TESTFILE > TESTFILE1
sda8: write failed, group block limit reached.
cat: write error: Disk quota exceeded
# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/sda3
/
ext3 defaults
1 1
/dev/sda8
/home
ext3 defaults,usrquota,grpquota
1 2
/dev/sda7
/tmp
ext3 defaults
1 2
/dev/sda6
/var
ext3 defaults
1 2
/dev/sda5
/opt
ext3 defaults
1 2
/dev/sda1
/boot
ext3 defaults
1 2
tmpfs
/dev/shm
tmpfs defaults 0
0
devpts
/dev/pts
devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs
/sys
sysfs defaults 0
0
proc
/proc
proc defaults
0 0
/dev/sda2
swap
swap defaults
0 0
Note:
Here is the command to edit quota for group (This has
to run as root).
# edquota -g groupA1
[userA@groupA1]$ quota -gl
Disk quotas for group groupA1 (gid 60000):
Filesystem blocks quota
limit grace files quota
limit grace
/dev/sda8 185168* 150000 200000
6days 8393 0
0
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Quota Issues in Linux
Common reasons for quota problems
- There are files owned by the same user elsewhere on the server.
- The backup directory is being counted towards the users disk quota.
- Extra log files are being counted towards the users quota.
- Cpanel was just updated and the quotas are now unlimited.
Step 1. Log into your server through SSH as the root user.
Step 2. Run the following command
/scripts/fixquotas
Advanced Fix - other reasons quotas are not working
Step 1. Find the user account where the quotas are incorrect and login to your server in SSH as root.
Step 2. Go to the users folder and check their disk space being used.
cd /home/username
du -h or try du -hs
Step 3. Check /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow to make sure there is no weirdness where the username shows up multiple times.
Step 4. Try finding other files owned by the user.
find -user username | more
This will list all files owned by this user that could be affecting the quota reported by Cpanel.
Step 5. Uncompressed backups can cause quota problems, ensure your backups are compressed in the WHM backup options.
Step 6. After your determine the source of the files and
remove them then run /scripts/fixquotas
Quota Problem, /scripts/fixquotas no help. [fix]
Well I figured I would post this here as it seems to be a previously un answered problem, and this may help someone at some time.
Recently we faced the common cpanel quotas problem, 0mb used and unlimited quota. No problem, run /scripts/fixquotas right? No. Doing this did nothing to aid our problem. After a bit of snooping around and trial and error here is how we managed to fix it.
Note:
Follow my instructions at your OWN risk. If you do this and somehow mess things up I am not to be held responsible. This shouldn't really harm anything even if it isn't the solution but still.. be warned.
First run "quotacheck -avugm", you should receive "quotacheck: Can't find filesystem to check or filesystem not mounted with quota option." If not you don't have the same problem.
Next step is to open fstab, type pico /etc/fstab.
The first line will probably look something like this:
"/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1"
What we want to do is change "defaults" to "usrquota".
Now save (ctrl + X, Y, Enter) and run "mount -o remount /".
Now run "quotacheck -avugm" once more. This time it should run through quotacheck normally.
After it is done running (and it may very well take quite
a long time) you should get:
"Old group file not found. Usage will not be substracted.
done
quotacheck: Checked xxxx directories and xxxx files"
This is a good thing. Now run run "quotaon /"
Now your space used should be correct, but quotas may still be unlimited.
This isn't a problem, just run good old /scripts/fixquotas and let it run through. It will probably run quotacheck again but it won't hurt anything. And when it's done your quotas should be working as normal.
/scripts/initquota
