Re: quota problems (again)

[Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@katamail.com>]

On Monday 06 September 2004 18:30 your cat walking on the keyboard wrote:

> Hi,
> it happened again: quota is saying that a user has exceeded the granted
> space while I cannot find files that do it. Allow me to proceed in order:
>
> mammuth:~# quota -u alonso
> Disk quotas for user alonso (uid 2220):
>      Filesystem  blocks   quota   limit   grace   files   quota   limit
> grace
>       /dev/hda5 4021252*  10000   12000            2879       0       0
>
> The quota is applied to the /dev/hda5 partition only, that includes /tmp
> directory. I've run the following command:
>
> find / -uid 2220 >quota.txt
>
> of course having a check on the user id (2220) in the /etc/passwd file. The
> file has reported that the user owns files only a few directories, and a du
> -hs on those directories gave to me a total amount of 8 MB, less than the
> 10 of quota roof. Furthermore, quota gives a 2879 files owned by the user,
> while executing
> cat quota.txt | wc -l
> gives a 1519 that is the about the half!
>
> I've tried with a quotacheck over the partition, but the situation remains
> the same. What can be? Any idea?
>


I've found that find / -uid 2220 reports a few files that do not exists on the 
filesystem, thus I've run a fsck (that has fixed a few files), then 
quotacheck again, but the situation has not changed. 
I don't know what else can I do to fix the problem, any idea?

Luca

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Luca Ferrari,
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