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Date:  Thu, 12 Oct 2006 19:03:18 +0100
From:  Jason Humphrey <Jasonh (at mark) businessws.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:07537] Re: Quota problems
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
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Gavin Nelmes-Crocker wrote:
> Guys
> 
> I've seen this before and its frustrated me, I now have it again on a
> specific user.
> 
> This is a BQ box Centos 4.3 - fairly recently updated but not running latest
> versions
> 
> The problem
> 
> The GUI reports the user quota as full i.e. 20Mb
> 
> if I do this 
> 
> Disk quotas for user sfriend (uid 905): 
>      Filesystem  blocks   quota   limit   grace   files   quota   limit
> grace
>        /dev/md4   21012*  20480   21504    none      24       0       0
> 
> 
> I get a similar report - quota full
> 
> If however I do find -user sfriend
> 
> I should find all the files owned by that user which are mainly in the users
> directory with a couple of webmail session ids as below
> 
> If I check the user directory with du -sh I get a useage of 184k - somewhat
> different from the quota response
> 
> /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/etc/sessions/sfriend*mail.londprov.co.uk-sessio
> n-0.221928642670722
> ./var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/etc/sessions/sfriend*mail.londprov.co.uk-sessi
> on-0.572812326558964
> ./var/spool/mail/.sfriend.pop
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/.users/75/sfriend
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/.users/75/sfriend/.vacation.msg
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/.users/75/sfriend/web
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/.users/75/sfriend/web/index.html
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/.users/75/sfriend/.openwebmail
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/.users/75/sfriend/.openwebmail/webcal
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/.users/75/sfriend/.openwebmail/webcal/notify.check
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/.users/75/sfriend/.openwebmail/db
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/.users/75/sfriend/.openwebmail/db/spam-mail.db
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/.users/75/sfriend/.openwebmail/db/virus-mail.db
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/.users/75/sfriend/.openwebmail/db/mail-trash.db
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/.users/75/sfriend/.openwebmail/db/sfriend.cache
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/.users/75/sfriend/.openwebmail/db/sfriend.db
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/.users/75/sfriend/.openwebmail/history.log
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/.users/75/sfriend/.openwebmail/webaddr
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/.users/75/sfriend/.openwebmail/webmail
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/.users/75/sfriend/.openwebmail/webmail/trash.check
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/.users/75/sfriend/.openwebmail/webmail/filter.folde
> rdb.db
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/.users/75/sfriend/.openwebmail/webmail/signature
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/.users/75/sfriend/.openwebmail/webmail/filter.ruled
> b.db
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/.users/75/sfriend/.openwebmail/webmail/filter.pid
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/.users/75/sfriend/.openwebmail/webmail/filter.check
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/.users/75/sfriend/.openwebmail/pop3
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/.users/75/sfriend/.openwebmail/pop3/pop3.check
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/.users/75/sfriend/.openwebmail/openwebmailrc
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/.users/75/sfriend/.openwebmail/release.date
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/.users/75/sfriend/.openwebmail/webdisk
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/.users/75/sfriend/.forward
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/.users/75/sfriend/mail
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/.users/75/sfriend/mail/virus-mail
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/.users/75/sfriend/mail/mail-trash
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/.users/75/sfriend/mail/spam-mail
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/.users/75/sfriend/.vacation_msg
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/.users/75/sfriend/mbox
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/.users/75/sfriend/Network Trash Folder
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/.users/75/sfriend/Private
> ./home/.sites/147/site75/users/sfriend
> 
> I checked the ./var/spool/mail/.sfriend.pop and its only 146k
> 
> So we are a long way of filling 20Mb
> 
> We used to see this on the Raq4 then we would do /sbin/quotacheck -avug and
> this would fix it but if I try this on a BQ box it complains - I did once do
> a force and that broke all my quota's in the GUI so I then spent a long time
> going through editing each user and site which I don't want to do again.
> 
> It looks as though the OS gets its quota in a mess how do I get it to rescan
> the disc and update what each user is using?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Regards
> 
> Gavin
> 

Is this user a site-admin and do they upload files into the main site area?
-- 
Kind regards,
Jason Humphrey
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