[TriLUG] quota issues

Janyne Kizer janyne_kizer at ncsu.edu
Tue Oct 1 10:37:56 EDT 2002


Thank you!  

"quotacheck -afi" followed by "quotacheck -afm" helped quite a bit.  

Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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Janyne Kizer
CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5
Systems Programmer Administrator
NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
Extension Information Technology



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