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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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