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SBDavid
Jun 14th, 2009

Enable quotas in your cpanel server

Enable quotas in cpanel server

If quotas are not enabled for the partition, the following error will occur while doing a quotacheck in the server. In case of Cpanel server, /scripts/initquotas will throw the following error.

/scripts/initquotas
Quotas are now on
Updating Quota Files……
quotacheck: Can’t find filesystem to check or filesystem not mounted with quota option.
quotacheck: Can’t find filesystem to check or filesystem not mounted with quota option.
….Done

You need to follow the steps given below:

$ touch /quota.user /quota.group
$ chmod 600 /quota.*
$ mount -o remount /
$ quotaoff -a
$ vi /etc/fstab
( open ‘fstab’ file and add usrquota,grpquota to the partition where you want to have quota on. That is, for example, add the entry like:
/dev/ubd0 / ext3 defaults,noatime,usrquota,grpquota 1 0 )
$ quotaon -a

You should be able to run a quotacheck nor /scripts/initquotas in your cpanel server without any problem.