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On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Joe Gleason wrote:

> I run a shell server and I suspect that some of my recent crashes have been
> due to a problem with quotas.
> 
> When I was running 2.2.2 I had a strange problem with quotas.  Whenever I
> had files owned by uid's of users that were no longer on the system, the
> size of my  quota.user file became very strange.  It would on occasion be
> reported as being greater than the total size of the drive itself.  I found
> that when I checked for and removed unowned files, this problem did not
> occer.

  These large files may be "sparse".  This may be quite normal.

> Now under 2.2.6, I thought the problem was fixed so I removed some of my
> work around scripting.  It seems that instead of having strange sizes of my
> quota.user file, my system would randomly crash.  When it does these
> crashes, it makes no comment in my /var/log/messages to give me any hint as
> to the cause.  After I removed the owned files, this no longer seems to be
> happening.

  Crash how?  I only remove stale home directories every couple of months.

> If anyone knows anything about this, please let me know.
> 
> Joe Gleason
> Tasam

Tom


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