Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 13:30:03 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Pritchard <mpp> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: kern/2325: quota.user enlarged, no boot on 2.2-BETA Message-ID: <199612302130.NAA21813@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/2325; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Mike Pritchard <mpp> To: Andre.Albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/2325: quota.user enlarged, no boot on 2.2-BETA Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 13:20:47 -0800 (PST) Andre Albsmeier wrote: > > > >Number: 2325 > >Category: kern > >Synopsis: quota.user enlarged, no boot on 2.2-BETA > >Description: > > I am running 2 Quantum Atlas 4GB Harddrives concatenated together to > a big 8GB virtual disk. I have enabled userquotas on this drive and used > edquota to configure it. This seems to work for a few days when suddenly > booting stops at the line "Checking quotas". You see the drive's LEDs > flickering for a while and then the machine seems to stop. However, > pressing CTRL-C works, and the normal boot procedure continues. > When looking in the root directory of the affected filesystems we find > that the quota file has grown extremly: > > -rw-r----- 1 root operator 4294967264 Dec 2 09:30 quota.user > > It does not appear to occupy the space really. > > >How-To-Repeat: > > Don't know. If you want me to do some tests, tell me. Check your file systems for files owned by a negative uid. Quotacheck should probably ignore uids < 0. -- Mike Pritchard mpp@FreeBSD.org "Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn"
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