dieter@jupiter.nmt.edu (The Demented Teddy Bear) (05/07/89)
I've been noticing serious discrepancies between actual disk usage and what quota reports for some users. The most blatant case is the user ``news''. The scenario: news% quota -v Filesystem usage quota limit timeleft /home 31866 180000 300000 root# quotacheck /home news% quota -v Filesystem usage quota limit timeleft /home 51103 180000 300000 Now, I can handle it being off a couple hundred kb, since news comes in over nntp fairly often, but 20 Mb ?! This is standard. I'm assuming that quotacheck gets it fairly close, even on a live system. The system is a Sun 3/280 running 4.0.1, sharing file server responsibilities with another 3/280. The nntp stuff only runs on this machine and all news- related files live on this machine. Ideas? Dieter Muller P.S. Anybody wanna buy a recently rebuilt DEC-20?
dieter@jupiter.nmt.edu (Dieter Muller) (05/18/89)
A while ago I sent a request off to Sun-Spots about: > [...] noticing serious discrepancies between actual disk usage and > what quota reports for some users. I got one reply which boiled down to ``yes, there's a problem, but we don't know what causes it'' from another user (not from Sun). What seems to make it go away is ripping out the default ``quotaon -a'' from /etc/rc and replacing it with ``quotaon -v /home'', etc, one for each partition. Strange, but true. Dieter Welcome to the island. You are number six. dieter%nmt@relay.cs.net dieter@jupiter.nmt.edu