Quota reports inconsistent result with du command
I have Solaris 9 9/04 installed.
root@ultrasoul #quota -v ultrasoul
Disk quotas for ultrasoul (uid 201):
Filesystem usage quota limit timeleft files quota limit timeleft
/var/mail 0 56320 56320 1 8 10
/usr0 2148 307200 307200 28 0 0
root@ultrasoul #du -hs /var/mail/ultrasoul
50M /var/mail/ultrasoul
I wonder why the size of /var/mail is 56MB but du tells that the /var/mail/ultrasoul is 50MB.
If more info is needed, pls let me know.
[501 byte] By [
staygreena] at [2007-11-26 15:11:57]
# 1
> I have Solaris 9 9/04 installed.
>
>
> root@ultrasoul #quota -v ultrasoul
>Disk quotas for ultrasoul (uid 201):
> Filesystem usage quota limit timeleft files quota
> limit timeleft
>/var/mail 0 56320 56320 1 8 10
> /usr0 2148 307200 307200 28 0 0
>
>root@ultrasoul #du -hs /var/mail/ultrasoul
> 50M /var/mail/ultrasoul
Well, any data in /var/mail but outside ultrasoul would appar in df but not du. The correct analog would be to run 'du -sk /var/mail'.
Also, if any open files in the filesystem were unlinked, they would remain on the filesystem, but cannot be seen by 'du'. That's not very common on /var/mail, though.
--
Darren
