From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 17 5:41:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au (Ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.44.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85DC9155D9 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 05:41:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au) Received: (from glewis@localhost) by ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA05816; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 22:15:22 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from glewis) From: Greg Lewis Message-Id: <199908171245.WAA05816@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Quotas. In-Reply-To: from matt at "Aug 17, 1999 07:55:09 am" To: matt Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 22:15:22 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL56 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have two questions, testing some theories with an odd problem of > mine; A) Is it possible that quota would mishandle a 9.3 GB partition? Can't be certain, but I have two partitions around that size (2 9Gb drives) and it handles them fine. > B) Is it possible that a minor/major problem with a hard drive would cause > quota but nothing else to 'freak out'? For reference, the machine is > FreeBSD 3.2-Stable as of August 6th, the hard drive is a 13 GB Quantum > Fireball, IDE. (Apologies for those on the -stable list that already > have seen this email, cross-posted to -questions after absolutly no > responses on -stable) I'm guessing that if the actual quota data (quota.user or quota.group) got corrupted it may make things unhappy. It could be a recent problem in -stable but I've seen no previous postings to that effect. -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 5083 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message