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Date:      Tue, 14 Nov 2000 21:19:32 +0100
From:      Pecsenyanszky Istvan <pisti@c3.hu>
To:        "D. W. Piper" <dwplists@loop.com>
Cc:        <isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Weird quotas problem - Help needed
Message-ID:  <Pine.SGI.4.30.0011142051060.3343-100000@visio.c3.hu>
In-Reply-To: <02e601c04e71$b522c680$213cd3cf@loop.com>

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Hello,

maybe there are files under /usr/www other than /usr/www/web/XXXXX owning
XXXXX.  Try  `find /usr/www -user XXXXX | fgrep -v /usr/www/web/XXXXX'
to list these files if any.

Istvan

On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, D. W. Piper wrote:

> I've run into a strange problem trying to use quotas to limit the size
> of user web sites, and I could really use some suggestions on what the
> problem might be and how to fix it.
>
> The quota -u command shows the correct quota limit for users, but is
> showing inaccurate block counts for some users that are over their
> limit.  Here's an example:
>
> # quota -u XXXXX
> Disk quotas for user XXXXX (uid YYYYY):
>   Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace
>     /usr/www 12142*   0    7168  none  205    0       0
>
> # du -sk /usr/www/web/XXXXX
> 5474    /usr/www/web/XXXXX
>
> Needless to say, the quota system is preventing these users from
> uploading files to their web site via FTP.
>
> I've already tried rebooting the machine with quotacheck on boot enabled
> twice now, the second time being just this morning.  Judging by the
> times on the files, the quota.user and quota.group files weren't changed
> at all by the quotacheck, and the problem was not resolved.
>
> Can anyone shed some light on what's going on here, and how to resolve
> it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
>
>
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