From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dar=EDo_Mariani?= Subject: Re: a question about disk quota Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 12:42:46 -0300 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40572076.7000203@fi.uba.ar> References: <200403131634.29112.fluca1978@virgilio.it> <4056E39C.1000708@bcgreen.com> <200403161255.14100.fluca1978@virgilio.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200403161255.14100.fluca1978@virgilio.it> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: fluca1978@virgilio.it Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Did you run quotacheck in single user mode? Luca Ferrari wrote: > On Tuesday 16 March 2004 12:23 Stephen Samuel's cat walking on the keyboard > wrote: > > >>Quotas are based on file ownership, not location. The files owned >>by the over-quota users may be in another user's directory... > > > I know this, and it is for this reason that I'm surprised, since the users > cannot access the whole disk, but only homes mounted via NFS. I've already > tried to find files by owner along the whole disk, but I'm unable to find a > total amount that exceeds the quota. > I cannot explain it to myself. > > Luca >