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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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