From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Samuel Subject: Re: a question about disk quota Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 03:23:08 -0800 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4056E39C.1000708@bcgreen.com> References: <200403131634.29112.fluca1978@virgilio.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200403131634.29112.fluca1978@virgilio.it> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: fluca1978@virgilio.it Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org 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, -- Stephen Samuel +1(604)876-0426 samuel@bcgreen.com http://www.bcgreen.com/~samuel/ Powerful committed communication. Transformation touching the jewel within each person and bringing it to light.