Patrick.Day.B@bayer.com writes:
All this said and done, the quotas are working correctly (no error messages) and are showing the users and thier limits. However, the actual file space accredited to the users is incorrect. It seems that only the files that they, themselves touch are assigned to them. I have users who i know are owners of more than 100Mb of files who, when the quota report is running, only appear to have 40K credited to them. Here is an example report for users who have more than 80Mb in their home directories.
The data files are probably owned by a UID other than that user. User quotas have nothing to do with the name of subdirectories under the tree. If I have 1GB of files under /home/quinlan (/home being the quota tree), but 800MB of the files are owned by root or someone else, only 200MB will show up in the quota report as being owned by me.
This can really be a problem if some users have root privileges.
- Dan