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

[Helmut Schneider]

From: "Manolis Kiagias" <sonicy at otenet.gr>

> Helmut Schneider wrote:
>> From: "Mike Pritchard" <mpp at mail.mppsystems.com>
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> OK.
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Hm, there is no "quota" at all at boot time:
>>
>> [root at teg ~]# dmesg -a | grep -ir quota
>> root at BSDHelmut:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP-WITH-QUOTA
>> [root at teg ~]#
>>
>> According to "/etc/rc.d/quota", shouldn't there be at least a "Checking 
>> quotas:" or a "Enabling quotas:" in dmesg?!
> It should:
>
> sonic at joshua:/usr/home/sonic$ dmesg -a |grep -ir quota
> Checking quotas:
> Enabling quotas:
>
> Please check your rc.conf. You have these lines:
>
> [root at mvt ~]# cat /etc/rc.conf | grep quota
> quota_enable="YES"
> check_quotas="YES"
>
> While you should have:
>
> enable_quotas="YES"
> check_quotas="YES"
>
> It is, actually, the reverse of  the usual <servicename>_enable entry! 
> Have a look at /etc/defaults/rc.conf and you will see this.

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Thanks. Close the PR, please.