From: Stephen Samuel <samuel@bcgreen.com>
To: fluca1978@virgilio.it
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: a question about disk quota
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 03:23:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4056E39C.1000708@bcgreen.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403131634.29112.fluca1978@virgilio.it>
Quotas are based on file ownership, not location. The files owned
by the over-quota users may be in another user's directory...
try:
find /partition -user victim -ls
where /partition is the partition where the quotars are applied.
Luca Ferrari wrote:
> Hello,
> I've got some problems using disk quotas, or better I saw some strange
> behaviors that I cannot explain to myself.
> This is the situation: one file server (Linux debian 3.0 r2) with homes
> mounted by client (debian too) through NFS. Users cannot access directly to
> the server, and this means the only directories they can see is their home,
> mounted thru NFS.
....
> But from a few days I found some users with large amounts of disk usage,
> exceeding the quota (and thus unable to save files), but I cannot find their
> files! In other words, checking their home they don't seem to use more space
> than the quota limit. I have already tried with find, to see all their files,
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-16 11:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-13 15:34 a question about disk quota Luca Ferrari
2004-03-15 10:17 ` Glynn Clements
2004-03-16 11:23 ` Stephen Samuel [this message]
2004-03-16 11:55 ` Luca Ferrari
2004-03-16 15:42 ` Darío Mariani
2004-03-17 19:14 ` Luca Ferrari
2004-03-18 15:41 ` Richard Nairn
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