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Date:      Sun, 4 Mar 2001 16:26:09 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: problems with quotas on STABLE
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103041624460.43971-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20010226064702.03756c60@marble.sentex.net>

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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.

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