From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 11 09:09:58 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D21716A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:09:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from quark.cs.earlham.edu (cs.earlham.edu [159.28.230.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7677543D48 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:09:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from skylar@cs.earlham.edu) Received: from quark.cs.earlham.edu (localhost.cs.earlham.edu [127.0.0.1]) by quark.cs.earlham.edu (8.13.1/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j2B99scL017805 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 04:09:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from skylar@cs.earlham.edu) Received: (from skylar@localhost) by quark.cs.earlham.edu (8.13.1/8.12.9/Submit) id j2B99s55017804 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 04:09:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from skylar@cs.earlham.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: quark.cs.earlham.edu: skylar set sender to skylar@quark.cs.earlham.edu using -f Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 04:09:54 -0500 From: Skylar Thompson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050311090954.GA17732@quark.cs.earlham.edu> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20050309085601.GA2061@quark.cs.earlham.edu> <20050309152908.GH37452@dan.emsphone.com> <422F63FB.6020105@cs.earlham.edu> <20050309210655.GB9663@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FCuugMFkClbJLl1L" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050309210655.GB9663@dan.emsphone.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Sender: "Skylar Thompson" X-Accept-Primary-Language: en X-Accept-Secondary-Language: es SMTP-Mailing-Host: quark.cs.earlham.edu X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE X-Uptime: 4:08AM up 3:54, 10 users, load averages: 1.95, 1.74, 1.54 X-Editor: VIM - Vi IMproved 6.3 (2004 June 7, compiled Aug 26 2004 10:37:04) Subject: Re: Quota problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Skylar Thompson List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:09:58 -0000 --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 03:06:55PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Mar 09), Skylar Thompson said: > > there should be changes to mention that /etc/rc will only create the > > files with check_quota enabled, and also that creating zero-length > > files is not only unnecessary, but also dangerous. >=20 > I don't know that the 0-byte quota files are the source of your > problem; I only know that they're not doing any good :) =20 It looks like they were the problem. I took the server down to single-user mode, deleted the zero-size quota.{user,group} files, and then ran quotacheck on that filesystem. After booting back up, the system ran normally without hanging. --=20 -- Skylar Thompson (skylar@cs.earlham.edu) -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/ --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCMWBisc4yyULgN4YRAj+IAJsHiGYigd2ENJm4GkugMOOZ9+ajTQCfSuwY wI5RWmQMDwAbEBlkYouaJwY= =0WmO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L--