Summary: BIG quota files

From: Mostapha Bentaleb <mostapha.bentaleb_at_quadratec.fr>
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 12:15:14 +0100

 
 
> >
> > I'm running Tru64 ver. 5.0 , and even with quota disabled in fstab
> > the 'quota.group' and 'quota.user' files are updated since several week
> > with a strange big size.
> > A copy by 'dd' act as if it was their real size
> >
> >
> > % ls -l /DT
> > total 161
> > drwxr-xr-x 3 root system 8192 Jun 20 2000 people
> > -rw-r----- 1 root operator 274877906944 Feb 6 15:48 quota.group
> > -rw-r----- 1 root operator 274877906944 Feb 6 15:48 quota.user
> >
> > % showfsets dtprod_domain
> > dtprod_fs
> > Id : 39351dc4.00083257.1.8001
> > Files : 45864, SLim= 0, HLim= 0
> > Blocks (512) : 12435660, SLim= 0, HLim= 0
> > Quota Status : user=off group=off
> >
> > % df -k /DT
> > Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
> > dtprod_domain#dtprod_fs 8925000 6217830 2677568 70% /DT
> > %
> >
> >
> > I'm new to this list and hope no to repeat some old question but
> > i realy can't figure out the problem, any suggestion ?
> > thanks in advance
> >
> > --

  many thanks to people who replied Knuth H. , Dr Thomas P. B. , Elizabeth H.F.
  and specialy John J. V. who routed me to the mailing archives


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  Ok, my question seem to be a very usual question
  even if the answers are not really helpfull
  (sorry John a useful summary is not possible )
  let do yet another summary by quoting Dr Thomas P.B.
  ( look at the sign. , it's the funny end of the story ;-) )


> What problem? The quota files are sparse. AdvFS requires them. There
> is nothing you can do about it. Don't worry, be happy.
>
> Tom
>
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>
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>
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