Xfs_quotas, [SOLVED]
Y’all know I’ve been fighting this, on and off, for months. The last few days, I’ve done a *lot* of googling, and finally got a clue in a reply in a thread I found, where someone noted that you CANNOT enable things like pquotas on an XFS filesystem with mount -o remount, you *MUST* umount it, then mount it. In spite of mount showing the quota for the filesystem, it never worked. I turned down NFS, umounted the filesystem, mounted it – I’d had the pquota as one of the options in fstab for weeks – and *poof*, I
could add hard and soft pquotas with no errors.
Nasty gotcha.
Side note: yesterday, I was getting so frustrated that I ran strace xfs_quota…, and found this interesting tidbit: it was looking for some message files, libc.mo and xfsprogs.mo. And they don’t exist in
/usr/share/locale/en_US. libc.mo is in /usr/share/local/en_GB. And it’s in most of the other languages, but not US English. Then, the xfsprogs.mo
*only* exist in Polish and German support, and nowhere else.
Gotta file a bug report, there.
Hope this helps others trying to implement quotas.
mark
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I don’t know what i18n system they’re using for that, but some of them build one language’s strings into the shipping binary, then use that unique string as a key into a dictionary for looking up other languages’ strings. So, the en_US strings may be built into xfs_quota.
Use strings(1) to confirm.