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Re: quota problem
Shachar Tal <shachar@vipe.technion.ac.il> wrote:
> I have a problem on my machine. My reported quota (quota -v <user>) seems
> to be way above the disk usage of the files (du ~<user>), and I need to
> run
> quotacheck every once in a while to fix it.
So do I.
> Any idea what is causing it?
My guess: the partition with quotas enabled is exported over NFS. It seems
that unlink()'ing files from an NFS volume not always updates quotas on the
exporting box.
Regards,
Evgeny
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