quota problems (again)

quota problems (again)

[Luca Ferrari]

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?

Thanks,
Luca

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Luca Ferrari,
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Re: quota problems (again)

[Luca Ferrari]

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,
fluca1978@katamail.com

Re: quota problems (again)

[Luca Ferrari]

On Tuesday 07 September 2004 14:05 your cat walking on the keyboard wrote:

> 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?


Well, I don't know if the two things are related each other, I believe yes. A 
couple of days ago the disk stopped working, and the kernel was saying that 
it was unable to mount the disk due to a bad superblock. Starting the system 
from a live cdrom and mounting it works, even if I cannot mount at boot. fsck 
does not report any error, while doing a chroot freeze the machine. This time 
it's a quantum fireball, and I don't have any idea of what can be happened.
Thoughts?

Luca

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Luca Ferrari,
fluca1978@katamail.com

Re: quota problems (again)

[Luca Ferrari]

On Monday 13 September 2004 09:32 your cat walking on the keyboard wrote:

> On Tuesday 07 September 2004 14:05 your cat walking on the keyboard wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Well, I don't know if the two things are related each other, I believe yes.
> A couple of days ago the disk stopped working, and the kernel was saying
> that it was unable to mount the disk due to a bad superblock. Starting the
> system from a live cdrom and mounting it works, even if I cannot mount at
> boot. fsck does not report any error, while doing a chroot freeze the
> machine. This time it's a quantum fireball, and I don't have any idea of
> what can be happened. Thoughts?
>

I've copied the whole home directory other another good disk, and rebuild the 
quotas. Now the quota of each user is coherent with the real space occupied, 
thus I'm quite sure it was a problem of filesystem corruption or something 
similar.

Luca

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fluca1978@katamail.com