Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 11:51:20 -0500 From: Mark Stosberg <mark@summersault.com> To: David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "find" and "quota" find different amounts of files (resolved) Message-ID: <3B17C7F4.7B6EBD28@summersault.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.32L2.0105292018460.41364-100000@shell-1.enteract.com>
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David Scheidt wrote: > > :So "find" is reporting 2435 files, but "quota" is reporting 2537. Where > :could the difference be hiding? > : > These should match. Two things pop into my head as first possibilities. > First, you have a race. find(1) and quota(1) are looking at the disk at > different times. It's possible that the files got created in the time > between find looking at a directory and when quota is run. Whether that's > likely will depend on what the machine and the user are doing. > > If it's consistently like this, then maybe your quota file is corrupt. > Are you running quotacheck(8) at startup? I believe the rc.conf flag > for that is "check_quotas". If you can afford to take the machine down, > run quotacheck and see it fixes the problem. David, Your suggestion helped us resolve this. Running quotacheck again seemed to do the trick. Thanks for the tip! -mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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