Re: doveadm quota get issue in lcx container

On 08/02/2026 12:30 EET Kim Haverblad via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:

Hi,

I'm having some issues getting the quota plugin to work properly. Based on
the error message, it looks like the plugin doesn't fully cooperate with
Proxmox mount points for LXC containers. It appears to be referencing the
secondary disk directly as /dev/nvme1n1p1, rather than the actual mount
point inside the container.

Here's the full error message:

mlgate:/usr/lib/systemd/system# doveadm quota get -u [1]some@example.com doveadm([2]some@example.com): Error: Failed to get quota resource STORAGE: quota-fs: quotactl(Q_GETQUOTA, /dev/nvme1n1p1) failed: No such file or directory

Are there any parameters that need to be adjusted to make this work, or is
there an alternative plugin that would handle this setup better?

//Kim

Hi!

Currently fs quota is not supported without access to the underlying device. It is not impossible though, but the development effort is not trivial, so have to see if that gets implemented at some point.

Aki