Disk quotas out of sync

Mike Pritchard mpp at mppsystems.com
Tue Aug 19 07:30:36 UTC 2008


On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 07:16:53PM -0400, Simon wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I sent this to freebsd-questions but it went unanswered, hoping for better
> luck here. The issue I'm trying to resolve is this:
> 
> Ever since I went from 6.x to 7.0-R I have started experiencing disk quotas
> getting out of sync with the actual amount used. For example, a user with
> 100GB used disk space suddenly shows usage of only 80GB as if the data
> is gone, but it isn't. This forces me to run quotacheck -av often.  Was
> something changed regarding quotas in 7.0-R? Nobody else noticed this issue?
> I have this issue across multiple, different hardware, servers running 7.0-R
> 
> Thank you for any insight and help in advance!
> 
> -Simon

What do your quota options look like in rc.conf?  And what does the
fstab look like for the file system in question?
-- 
Mike Pritchard
mpp @ FreeBSD.org
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