[linux-lvm] quota command does not work

[Christophe Saout]

Am Mi, den 14.04.2004 schrieb Heinz Mauelshagen um 10:39 Uhr +0200:

> > 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
>
> chgrp disk /dev/mapper/*
> chmod g=rw /dev/mapper/*
> 
> We need to fix that in dmlib (if not already done ;)

The problem seems to be the volume group directory which is set 700
here. Changing it to 755 fixes the problem for me, even if the device
nodes in /dev/mapper themselves are still 600.