[TriLUG] Kernel/Quota errors

[Jon Carnes]

I would guess that the quota file was corrupt.  As I understand it, this
file needs to be in good working order when the volume in mounted or
quota's won't work.  After you fixed the file, did you unmount/mount the
volume?

On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 14:16, Janyne Kizer wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone on this list has experience dealing with
> errors such as this:
> 
> VFS: find_free_dqentry(): Data block full but it shouldn't.
> VFS: Error -5 occured while creating quota.
> 
> One of my servers had a disk error (could not come back up after reboot,
> needed to do a repair) and ever since they it has had quota problems. 
> The error was on /home and that is also where the quotas are.  We have
> recreated the quota file once and the errors continue to occur. 
> Quotacheck does not resolve the problem, in fact, the errors are
> reporting the first time quotacheck is run.  The drive was mounted
> ext3.  We were thinking that perhaps the journal was bad and mounted it
> ext2 but that made no difference.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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