[TriLUG] quota issues

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 10:19, Janyne Kizer wrote:
> I think that repquota and quota <userid> are reporting incorrect
> information on one of our systems.  Is there a way to query for
> ownership to see that it is looking at and confirm?  
> 
> Basically what has happened is a new id was created and it is way over
> quota but no one has ever logged in using that ID.  We do not create
> 29362912k worth of stuff when adding an ID!

You might try running the "quotacheck" utility which recalculates quota
usage and updates the quota files.  I usually use "quotacheck -a"; see
the man page for a bunch of other options.

--Jeremy