quota command gives wrong details...

Hi,

I had enable quotas on one filesystem. After some time found that one of the user had exceeded the quota and even the Lite left was alos expired.

When user came reporting, he is unable to even login to system, thru CDE, asked to removed the stuff from his home directory.

Now if a 'du -sk ' is run on the directory it shows

bash-2.05$ du -sk /home1/xwolobu

10571/home1/xwolobu

when I edit the quota, and do aquota -v for the user, it give avague figure like

Disk quotas for xwolobu (uid 40369):

Filesystemusage quota limittimeleft files quota limittimeleft

/pmshares 0 5242880 5245880000

/home13612707 5122345 5123345806800

Not able to understand where the system is getting 3GB plus of used data size for this user. I I give value less than 3GB, the timer starts saying 7 days left.

Any idea why this is happeneing?how to fix this?

[934 byte] By [guddlua] at [2007-11-26 23:51:59]
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> bash-2.05$ du -sk /home1/xwolobu

> 10571/home1/xwolobu

> /pmshares 0 5242880 5245880

>000

> /home1 3612707 5122345 5123345806800

> Not able to understand where the system is getting

> 3GB plus of used data size for this user. I I give

> value less than 3GB, the timer starts saying 7 days

> left.

One obvious issue would be if the user owned files that were not in that user's home directory.

You might want to run a 'find /home1 -user xwolobu' and look for any files that are not in the home directory.

--

Darren

Darren_Dunhama at 2007-7-11 15:31:16 > top of Java-index,General,Talk to the Sysop...