No quotas set on /home file system

[lstein89]

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I'm sure the cause of the problem is within KeyHelp
Yes


Server operating system + version
Ubuntu 24.04 (irrelevant)


Server virtualization technology used
kvm (irrelevant)


KeyHelp version + build number
25.0 Build 3398


Problem description / error messages
I was noticing that Keyhelp was not reporting disk space usage correctly. Checking the logs for the Calculate Disk Space maintenance task, I noted that web space was not being counted.

After a bit of investigation, I discovered KeyHelp only sets quotas on the root filesystem, regardless of where the user home directories reside.

If you follow best practices, user home directories should be on a dedicated partition apart from system files. Ditto for log directories, mail spool directories, and other directories that could potentially increase in size quickly or should have special mount options. This is how I have always set things up (managing Linux servers - largely web servers specifically - for 25+ years).

KeyHelp should take note if /home or /home/users is a separate partition and set quotas on the correct file system.


Steps to reproduce
Install KeyHelp on server with dedicated /home or /home/users partition
Create user with disk space limit
Check disk quotas/Calculate Disk Space logs


Expected result
Quotas should be set on user home directories
KeyHelp should report correct disk usage per user


Actual result
No quotas are set for home directories. Keyhelp reports 0 (zero) web space usage.

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Disk quotas for user swift (uid 5001):
  Filesystem                   blocks       soft       hard     inodes     soft     hard
  /dev/sda3                         0   41943040   41943040          0  5242880  5242880
  /dev/sda4                   1839364          0          0      99333        0        0

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Client name : swift

Diskspace   : 1.40 MiB / 40.00 GiB - 0.00%
- Webspace  : 0 B
- Emails    : 88.00 KiB
- Databases : 1.31 MiB

Additional information
This is my current partitioning scheme. For production, /var or /var/spool/mail would likely also be a separate partition

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# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda3 during curtin installation
/dev/disk/by-uuid/521a09d7-cf00-49fe-ba57-4899a8e0f2a5     /     ext4     defaults,usrquota,grpquota     0     1
# /home was on /dev/sda4 during curtin installation
/dev/disk/by-uuid/b90fb26e-7951-4e08-a51c-237c8bbd1c8b /home/users ext4 defaults,nodev,noexec,relatime,usrquota,grpquota 0 2
# /boot/efi was on /dev/sda1 during curtin installation
/dev/disk/by-uuid/EF74-CDCA /boot/efi vfat defaults 0 2
tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs size=10%,nosuid,noexec 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs size=10%,nosuid,noexec 0 0

[Florian]

Hallo,

if you use a seperate partion for home you must change the Keyhelp database:

`settings` -> `category` 'quota' and `name` 'file_system'
Set the `value` to your mountpoint