Jaye Mathisen mrcpu@cdsnet.net writes:
which is flatly impossible, the users were just created and assigned. yet it thinks the disk space usage is all used up.
We had a similar problem with some 4.2 versions. Basically, files would get created as root and then chowned to a user, but without any quota usage attribution. Later, the user deletes some files. 0 minus some number is a really big number because of integer overflow. Quota exceeded.
It looks like you may have a similar problem.
Generally, quotas are unreliable for us. I always "quota off; quota on" whenever I add a new directory directly under one of our quota trees.
The biggest problem for us is that we don't really want to use quotas to limit disk usage, we just want to track it. It should be really easy to have a "nice quotas" option that causes the filer to never send an EDQUOT (quota exceeded) error. That one feature would make most of our quota problems non-problems.
- Dan