dpkg errors when configuring quotas

[Jacob Mansfield]

Hi all,
Over the last few days I have been attempting to set up user quotas on a
server used for backing up data. after enabling usrquota in /etc/fstab, I
went to install the quota and quotatool packages via apt-get, however I
was greeted with nice error message from dpkg while configuring quota:

Setting up quota (4.00~pre1-6) ...
Checking quotas...quotacheck: Cannot guess format from filename on
/dev/xvdb1. Please specify format on commandline.
done.
Turning on quotas...quotaon: cannot find /backups/quota.group on /dev/xvdb1
[/backups]
quotaon: cannot find /backups/quota.user on /dev/xvdb1 [/backups]
invoke-rc.d: initscript quota, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing quota (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
configured to not write apport reports
Errors were encountered while processing:
 quota
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root at backups:~#

anybody know what I might have done wrong?
Jacob Mansfield
Programmer
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