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Date:      Mon, 30 Dec 1996 13:30:05 -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.NAA21822@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 13:27:32 -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.
 
 I just remembered - try running quotacheck with the -v option.
 It will report any unknown uids/gids in the file system.
 Very large uids/gids (and probably negative uids) will cause 
 quotacheck to run for a long time since it doesn't handle large gaps in
 uids very well.
 -- 
 Mike Pritchard
 mpp@FreeBSD.org
 "Go that way.  Really fast.  If something gets in your way, turn"



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