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Date:      Sat, 27 Oct 2001 13:25:16 +0930 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Holtor <holtor@yahoo.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Quota Reporting Errors
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20011027132516.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20011026232817.76992.qmail@web11606.mail.yahoo.com>

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>  We seem to be having a strange quota problem on one
>  of our web hosting servers. Quota is reporting
>  that a user is over their quota on /usr but they
>  most certantly are not.

Have you considered the user has an running process with a file descriptor open
to a deleted file.. Analogous to this ->

cat >foo &
 
rm foo

If the cat wrote lots of data into foo and was still running when the rm was
issued, the space would not be deallocated.

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum

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