From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 4 13:26:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [64.0.106.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 049B137B719 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 13:26:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA15192; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 16:26:09 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 16:26:09 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Mike Tancsa Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems with quotas on STABLE In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20010226064702.03756c60@marble.sentex.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Mike Tancsa wrote: > Not sure how long this problem has been around, but at bootup time the > quota file creation process always seems to fail for me. If I kill the file > and let it start from scratch, same problem as if I let it update it after > a reboot. ... > quotacheck: /home/quota.user: seek failed: File too large So hunt down the files/directories on that filesystem that have really high UID/GID numbers and change them to something sane. The quota file format includes a record for every UID/GID on the system between the smallest and the largest. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message