From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 26 20:55:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2FA437B401; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 20:55:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (root@spare0.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.114]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA14586; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 13:25:21 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011026232817.76992.qmail@web11606.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 13:25:16 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Holtor Subject: RE: Quota Reporting Errors Cc: stable@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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