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Date:      Mon, 30 Dec 1996 19:16:53 -0600 (CST)
From:      raistlin <raistlin@ecpnet.com>
To:        Mike Pritchard <mpp@freefall.freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kern/2325: quota.user enlarged, no boot on 2.2-BETA
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.961230191529.372A-100000@bullfrog.ecpnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <199612302130.NAA21813@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Mike Pritchard wrote:

> 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.


This problem has also happened on my machines, and because of the large
file I deleted the file and turned off the quota and started over with no
problems.. I am running 2.2 also.




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