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Date:      Fri, 9 Mar 2001 13:30:36 +0200
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
To:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
Cc:        Joerg Micheel <joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Trouble with quotas on FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE
Message-ID:  <20010309133036.C6215@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
In-Reply-To: <200103090248.f292mNR06987@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 06:48:23PM -0800
References:  <20010309120212.A49897@cs.waikato.ac.nz> <200103090248.f292mNR06987@earth.backplane.com>

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On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 06:48:23PM -0800, Matt Dillon wrote:
> 
> :I am running a system with a 50GB /home drive. One user is experiencing
> :inconsistencies, for him the system reports being over disk quota.
> :du -sk reports 1.7GB utilization, quota reports 5.2GB. I've been checking
> :the entire drive for files that belong to this user, same result. I have
> :turned off quota, rerun quotacheck. It reports inconsistencies, but minor,
> :does not change the big picture that this user is over quota. Soft limits
> :are set to 5GB, hard to 10GB for all users on this drive.
> :
> :Thank you for any hints.
> :	Joerg
> :-- 
> :Joerg B. Micheel			Email: <joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz>
> :WAND and NLANR MOAT			Email: <joerg@nlanr.net>
> 
>     Is it possible that the user is over his inode quota rather then his
>     disk quota?
 
..or that the quota checks include deleted files, which are still being
held open by a long-running process (logfiles and such)?

G'luck,
Peter

-- 
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