Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:26:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net> To: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.1 quota issues Message-ID: <Pine.OSX.4.61.0607141753050.3261@white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> In-Reply-To: <20060710073442.GG37822@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> References: <Pine.OSX.4.61.0607072227510.3261@white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> <20060708085132.GD98476@over-yonder.net> <Pine.OSX.4.61.0607100039100.3261@white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> <20060710052513.GF37822@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <Pine.OSX.4.61.0607100137200.3261@white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> <20060710073442.GG37822@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
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On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Kostik Belousov wrote: > On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 01:39:01AM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: >> On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Kostik Belousov wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 12:41:07AM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: >>>> On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 10:56:47PM -0400 I heard the voice of >>>>> Charles Sprickman, and lo! it spake thus: >>>>>> >>>>>> Trying again, it reported the same inconsistencies then sat there >>>>>> for more than an hour taking up all the available CPU on the box >>>>>> until I killed it. The mtime on quota.user had not changed during >>>>>> the run. >>>>> >>>>> FWIW, I saw this on a box I setup running a late November -CURRENT >>>>> last year; I could never get the quotas setup and running right >>>>> because the check always just looped itself up. The partition they're >>>>> on has about 3 gig used out of ~45, with maybe a dozen users. I never >>>>> spent much time on it, since it's just a personal box, and the quotas >>>>> are mostly just to provide a handy measure of who's using what (no >>>>> limits set). I just gave it up and decided to worry about it later. >>>> >>>> What should I do here? It's consistently failing. What information >>>> should I gather to forumulate a PR that won't burden the assignee with >>>> lots of troubleshooting mess? The machine is not in production, but there >>>> is user data on it. I could allow a trusted developer access to it, or >>>> even create another jail to illustrate the problem. >>> >>> It is not clear from your report whether you run fsck on the problem >>> partition. I think (and my view is backed by "unexpected inconsistencies" >>> message) that this is the must. >> >> Sorry about that, I did not mention it, but thinking the same thing you >> did, I unmounted the partition and fsck'd twice for good measure. Both >> runs came back clean. I think its quotacheck complaining about the >> quota.user file... > Ok, please, show me uname -a, dmesg, /etc/fstab, mount -v. Rather than clutter the thread with all that, I'll link it up: http://www.bway.net/~spork/quota-info.html There's also a link to the bzipped quota.user file there, as I'm fairly certain that holds some secrets. Are there any utilities to poke around that file with? Thanks, Charles
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