From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 14 22:26:07 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05A2916A4DE for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:26:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spork@bway.net) Received: from mail.bway.net (xena.bway.net [216.220.96.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55B0743D53 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:26:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from spork@bway.net) Received: (qmail 70974 invoked by uid 0); 14 Jul 2006 22:26:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com) (spork@bway.net@216.220.116.154) by smtp.bway.net with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 14 Jul 2006 22:26:04 -0000 Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:26:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Sprickman X-X-Sender: spork@white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com To: Kostik Belousov In-Reply-To: <20060710073442.GG37822@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> Message-ID: References: <20060708085132.GD98476@over-yonder.net> <20060710052513.GF37822@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20060710073442.GG37822@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.1 quota issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:26:07 -0000 On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Kostik Belousov wrote: > On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 01:39:01AM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: >> On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Kostik Belousov wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 12:41:07AM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: >>>> On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 10:56:47PM -0400 I heard the voice of >>>>> Charles Sprickman, and lo! it spake thus: >>>>>> >>>>>> Trying again, it reported the same inconsistencies then sat there >>>>>> for more than an hour taking up all the available CPU on the box >>>>>> until I killed it. The mtime on quota.user had not changed during >>>>>> the run. >>>>> >>>>> FWIW, I saw this on a box I setup running a late November -CURRENT >>>>> last year; I could never get the quotas setup and running right >>>>> because the check always just looped itself up. The partition they're >>>>> on has about 3 gig used out of ~45, with maybe a dozen users. I never >>>>> spent much time on it, since it's just a personal box, and the quotas >>>>> are mostly just to provide a handy measure of who's using what (no >>>>> limits set). I just gave it up and decided to worry about it later. >>>> >>>> What should I do here? It's consistently failing. What information >>>> should I gather to forumulate a PR that won't burden the assignee with >>>> lots of troubleshooting mess? The machine is not in production, but there >>>> is user data on it. I could allow a trusted developer access to it, or >>>> even create another jail to illustrate the problem. >>> >>> It is not clear from your report whether you run fsck on the problem >>> partition. I think (and my view is backed by "unexpected inconsistencies" >>> message) that this is the must. >> >> Sorry about that, I did not mention it, but thinking the same thing you >> did, I unmounted the partition and fsck'd twice for good measure. Both >> runs came back clean. I think its quotacheck complaining about the >> quota.user file... > Ok, please, show me uname -a, dmesg, /etc/fstab, mount -v. Rather than clutter the thread with all that, I'll link it up: http://www.bway.net/~spork/quota-info.html There's also a link to the bzipped quota.user file there, as I'm fairly certain that holds some secrets. Are there any utilities to poke around that file with? Thanks, Charles