kern/114766: [quotas] Disk quota does not work as expected

[Mike Pritchard]

On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 01:40:43PM +0100, Helmut Schneider wrote:
> From: "Mike Pritchard" <mpp at mail.mppsystems.com>
> 
> >Are you running quotacheck while there are users active, or the
> >machine is accepting mail deliveries?  Running quotacheck on
> >an active file system will generate those type of fixups, due
> >to buffered data in the kernel not being in sync with
> >the disk data at that point.
> 
> Yes, but I ran "quotacheck -va" a few minutes ago and it reported many fixups. I checked the logfiles and the last access 
> for a specific user, it was yesterday morning. I even rebooted the machine yesterday evening. Shouldn't at least a reboot 
> fix/flush all those entries?

Ignore my previous message asking what version you are running.  I see
that you are running 6.3.

You stated that the users mail files are stored in /home, which probably
means the file system is active, even if no users were actually logged
in and using it.  Quotacheck is not designed to be run on an active
file system.

Edit /etc/rc.d/quota and add the -v option to the quotacheck command
there.  If quotacheck updates the usage information during boot up after 
a clean shutdown, then there is a problem somewhere, unless it was something
updated on the file system during the boot process.
-- 
Mike Pritchard
mpp @ FreeBSD.org
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