Quota problems

[Skylar Thompson]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 03:06:55PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Mar 09), Skylar Thompson said:
> > there should be changes to mention that /etc/rc will only create the
> > files with check_quota enabled, and also that creating zero-length
> > files is not only unnecessary, but also dangerous.
> 
> I don't know that the 0-byte quota files are the source of your
> problem; I only know that they're not doing any good :)  

It looks like they were the problem. I took the server down to single-user
mode, deleted the zero-size quota.{user,group} files, and then ran
quotacheck on that filesystem. After booting back up, the system ran
normally without hanging.

-- 
-- Skylar Thompson (skylar at cs.earlham.edu)
-- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/
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