Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 17:56:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Hartley <mark@work.drapple.com> To: Daniel Brown <djb@unixan.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Holtor <holtor@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Quota Reporting Errors Message-ID: <XFMail.011026175622.mark@work.drapple.com> In-Reply-To: <20011026170141.3c6b5ccf.djb@unixan.com>
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On 27-Oct-01 Daniel Brown wrote: > Add: > > check_quotas="YES" > > to your /etc/rc.conf file, then reboot. Your machine should take a few > more minutes to reboot, but should result in an exact fixing of all user > quota. A better, and less disruptive solution is to simply run: /sbin/quotacheck /usr To have it rebuild the quota file for the /usr volume. Mark. > > If that doesn't solve your issue, then quite likely your user really is > using more than they should, but in places you're not expecting them to > place their files. Try: > > find /usr -user <username> > > and make sure that you account for each and every file produced by that > list. If you find files in places you weren't expecting them, then you > have your answer. > > -Daniel > > ------------ Quoted Message ------------ > Date...: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 16:28:17 -0700 (PDT) > From...: Holtor <holtor@yahoo.com> > To.....: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > CC.....: > Subject: Quota Reporting Errors > > Hello Everyone, > > We seem to be having a strange quota problem on one > of our web hosting servers. Quota is reporting > that a user is over their quota on /usr but they > most certantly are not. > > It appears as if the quota file itself for our > /usr partition has gotten corrupted somehow. > > If it is removed and then regenerated quota then > reports usage correctly. > > The only problem with that is that we'd need to > restore > quotas for hundreds of users which is no easy task. > > Has anyone run into this problem? bug? Are there any > simple fixes? > > TIA > > Holt > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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