It's pretty straight forward. I'm on an OpenVZ VPS with OVH. Trying to get quotas enabled for my first time. It's a project with a good purpose. Got 26 users, need to limit them to 300MB space on the VPS a piece within their home directory.

So I try to follow this guide:

https://www.digitalocean.com/communi...d-group-quotas

I can't get halfway through without running into an issue :/ Pretty sure it's just a simple limitation with OpenVZ, and I'll need to find some other way, but maybe not. Maybe I'm just ignorant, and someone can help me out here.

Quota was already installed, so I cd into /etc/fstab. I added this line:

LABEL=DOROOT / ext4 errors=remount-ro,usrquota 0 1

then went for:

mount -o remount /

however; permission denied was response. I'm guessing this is a hard limit... i'm root on the VPS, should have all access, except this is paravirtualization, openvz... so am I just scrooged here, or not going about this the correct way?

Other thought I had was to attempt to create 26 additional partitions, and only give access to 1 a pop each user, at 300MB per partition, but that seems kinda silly, and still not sure even possible on OpenVZ.

I need this done, ASAP. Got work to do on the web developing end, and start school next Tuesday. I got this coming weekend to slam this out. Any help would be GREAT!!LY Appreciated.

TY!

pl3

2 Managing Disk Quotas
and other quota subjects

Yea that just doesn't help me in the slightest. Obviously 2nd level disk quotas are disabled. I'm using my kimsufi dedicated for this now. It won't have hdd redundancy, but this is a free community, and I'll be doing incremental backups to my local rig once a week just in case. I just need this to last until move to an area that offers verizon, and get on the 75/75 plan, then will host this myself. That's 9 months out.

At least this way I can greatly increase the quota's per user from 300MB to 5GB. These will be used for RSS/podcast feeds. I'm going to keep the VPS for raw bandwidth/traffic of OPUS streams. Free broadcasting community.

Setting it up this weekend, and onto my studies.