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Date:      Mon, 10 Jul 2006 01:39:01 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net>
To:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 6.1 quota issues
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSX.4.61.0607100137200.3261@white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060710052513.GF37822@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
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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...

Thanks,

Charles




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