OS: Ubuntu 16.04
I have installed the quota commandline tool from apt and found some instructions to enable quota on the root partition by appending rootflags=uquota,gquota to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX within the file /etc/default/grub followed by update-grub and rebooting.
This seems to only effect my root partition as repquota -a gives the following output.
*** Report for user quotas on device /dev/sda5
Block grace time: 7days; Inode grace time: 7days
Block limits File limits
User used soft hard grace used soft hard grace
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root -- 2791432 0 0 176163 0 0
daemon -- 52 0 0 1 0 0
etc.
etc.
As i would like to check the /var (/dev/sda6) partition aswel i tried to fill in either of ,usrjquota=quota.user,grpjquota=quota.group or ,uquota,gquota to /etc/fstab for /var but mount keeps outputting noquota:
(rw,noatime,attr2,inode64,noquota)
Rebooting with either of those mount options leaves me with a boot error when trying to mount /var.
How can i achieve quota control on my other partitions?
The problem was the naming of the options. The correct options were
usrquotaandgrpquota. Appending these two options to the mountpoint enabled me to watch quota statistics under my /var partition too.