[linux-lvm] quota command does not work

Heinz Mauelshagen mauelshagen at redhat.com
Wed Apr 14 08:39:19 UTC 2004


On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 11:17:23AM -0400, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
> I am using lvm2 with the following logical volume:
> 
>   --- Logical volume ---
>   LV Name                /dev/nwlsd_vg/nwlsd_lv
>   VG Name                nwlsd_vg
>   LV UUID                jKXS7Q-2Bda-JpVG-Ba4I-Ocfr-6UyO-182Mek
>   LV Write Access        read/write
>   LV Status              available
>   # open                 1
>   LV Size                55.91 GB
>   Current LE             14312
>   Segments               2
>   Allocation             next free (default)
>   Read ahead sectors     0
>   Block device           254:0
> 
> I am trying to get quota's working on the system. The quotas themselves
> are working, however, standard users cannot issue the quota command to
> inspect their own specific information:
> 
> $ quota
> quota: Can't stat() mounted device /dev/nwlsd_vg/nwlsd_lv: Permission
> denied
> Disk quotas for user mellofone (uid 1000): none
> 
> However, it does work for root:
> 
> $ quota mellofone
> Disk quotas for user mellofone (uid 1000): 
>      Filesystem  blocks   quota   limit   grace   files   quota   limit   grace
> /dev/nwlsd_vg/nwlsd_lv
>                 19364268*      0  100000            2019       0       0    0
> 
> This setup works on other volumes that do not use lvm. Any ideas what I
> screwed up? Just as an FYI:

chgrp disk /dev/mapper/*
chmod g=rw /dev/mapper/*

We need to fix that in dmlib (if not already done ;)

> 
> $ lvm version
>   LVM version:     2.00.09 (2004-03-31)
>   Library version: 1.00.08-ioctl (2004-02-27)
>   Driver version:  4.1.0
> 
> Thanks.
> -- 
>   Matthew Daubenspeck
>   http://www.oddprocess.org
> 
> 11:09:30 up 23 days, 1:21, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.03, 0.00
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Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --

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