quotactl returns double values

Tod McQuillin devin at spamcop.net
Sun Feb 10 04:44:57 UTC 2008


On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Ivan Georgiev wrote:

> I was just playing, trying to see how quotactl works,
> but in all my tries the values returned are doubled,
>
> the values stored in my_st->dqb_bhardlimit and my_st->dqb_curblocks
> are the real values times two, the hard limit on the user is 102400K,
> but my_st->dqb_bhardlimit holds 204800K.

I hope you are remembering that the limits are measured in blocks -- a 
block is 512 bytes.

Thus a limit of 102400K is 204800 blocks, since each 1K holds 2 blocks.
-- 
Tod McQuillin


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