Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 22:15:22 +0930 (CST) From: Greg Lewis <glewis@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> To: matt <matt@MLINK.NET> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quotas. Message-ID: <199908171245.WAA05816@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908170753180.99519-100000@dns02.arpa-canada.net> from matt at "Aug 17, 1999 07:55:09 am"
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> 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
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