Re: Quota confusion

Dave Chinner
2010-10-02T10:34:09Z

On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 05:09:45PM +1300, Richard Scobie wrote:
> I am setting up project quota at 95% of the storage capacity. df shows:
>
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/dm-0 13672271872 11816602148 1855669724 87% /mnt/storage1
>
> so I set it:
>
> limit -p bhard=12988658278k 1
>
> but when I do an xfs_quota "quota -p 1":
>
> Disk quotas for Project shares (1)
> Filesystem Blocks Quota Limit Warn/Time
> Mounted on
> /dev/dm-0 11816148292 0 12988658280 00
> [--------] /mnt/storage1
>
> the number of blocks is less than the limit.

Ok, that looks normal.

> Also, an xfs_quota df:
>
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Pathname
> /dev/dm-0 13672271872 11816602148 1855669724 87% /mnt/storage1
> /dev/dm-0 13672271872 23632296584 1855669724 173%
> /mnt/storage1/share
>
> I do not understand the lower "Used" figure.

Hmmm - looks like a directory quota output for a specific directory
(/mnt/storage1/share), and for some reason the used field is roughly
double the correct value. Can you post your project quota config
files?

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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