{"id":3431,"date":"2021-10-25T11:34:10","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T11:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/?p=3431"},"modified":"2021-10-25T11:34:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T11:34:10","slug":"edquota-cannot-stat-mounted-device-dev-root","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/edquota-cannot-stat-mounted-device-dev-root\/","title":{"rendered":"edquota: Cannot stat() mounted device \/dev\/root"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A disk quota may be a limit set by a administrator that restricts usage of file system in Operating Systems. The function of setting quotas to disks is to allocate restricted disk-space for accounts according to shared hosting packages.<\/p>\n<p>It throws a error as below, when updating them on your server.<\/p>\n<p><strong>edquota: Cannot stat() mounted device \/dev\/root: No such file or directory<br \/>\nNo filesystems with quota detected.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Looking at the error, it looks like \/dev\/root does not exists. Check if it does.<\/p>\n<p><strong># ll \/dev\/root<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If it does not exists, create it with command<\/p>\n<p><strong># ln -s \/dev\/xvda \/dev\/root<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now, time to update quota on your server.<\/p>\n<p><strong># \/scripts\/fixquotas \u2013force<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It will show the proper quota in your cPanel now . If you continue to face any problems, contact your web hosting provider. On a Linux dedicated server OR a Linux cPanel VPS, simply follow the steps as above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A disk quota may be a limit set by a administrator that restricts usage of file system in Operating Systems. The function of setting quotas to disks is to allocate restricted disk-space for accounts according to shared hosting packages. It throws a error as below, when updating them on your server. edquota: Cannot stat() mounted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dedicated-server"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3432,"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431\/revisions\/3432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}