6.1 quota issues

Kostik Belousov kostikbel at gmail.com
Mon Jul 10 07:35:35 UTC 2006


On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 01:39:01AM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 12:41:07AM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> >>On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 10:56:47PM -0400 I heard the voice of
> >>>Charles Sprickman, and lo! it spake thus:
> >>>>
> >>>>Trying again, it reported the same inconsistencies then sat there
> >>>>for more than an hour taking up all the available CPU on the box
> >>>>until I killed it.  The mtime on quota.user had not changed during
> >>>>the run.
> >>>
> >>>FWIW, I saw this on a box I setup running a late November -CURRENT
> >>>last year; I could never get the quotas setup and running right
> >>>because the check always just looped itself up.  The partition they're
> >>>on has about 3 gig used out of ~45, with maybe a dozen users.  I never
> >>>spent much time on it, since it's just a personal box, and the quotas
> >>>are mostly just to provide a handy measure of who's using what (no
> >>>limits set).  I just gave it up and decided to worry about it later.
> >>
> >>What should I do here?  It's consistently failing.  What information
> >>should I gather to forumulate a PR that won't burden the assignee with
> >>lots of troubleshooting mess?  The machine is not in production, but there
> >>is user data on it.  I could allow a trusted developer access to it, or
> >>even create another jail to illustrate the problem.
> >
> >It is not clear from your report whether you run fsck on the problem
> >partition. I think (and my view is backed by "unexpected inconsistencies"
> >message) that this is the must.
> 
> Sorry about that, I did not mention it, but thinking the same thing you 
> did, I unmounted the partition and fsck'd twice for good measure.  Both 
> runs came back clean.  I think its quotacheck complaining about the 
> quota.user file...
Ok, please, show me uname -a, dmesg, /etc/fstab, mount -v.
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