You may receive the error message while starting a VPS on OpenVZ server.
vzquota : (error) Quota getstat syscall for id 101: Inappropriate ioctl for device
vzquota init failed [3]
This is a typical Quota error message on OpenVZ servers while starting a VPS. The message indicates that you need to initialize quota on the VPS. You can follow the below steps to correct the issue
rm -f /var/vzquota/quota.101
vzquota drop 101
vzctl start 101
where, 101 is the VPS ID.
If you continue to receive the same error message while starting the VPS,
1. Make sure the server is booted with the OpenVZ kernel, you can check that out using
uname -a
2. The vz service is online.
service vz status
if not, restart the vz service
service vz start
Once you confirm the above two things, start the vps again with the vzctl command.
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November 9th, 2010 at 6:59 pm
Thank you, this helped tremendously!
I am working on a SAN/VM management system too.
November 7th, 2011 at 10:39 am
Thanks, I couldn’t get vz to start so i did service vz start and it did the trick!