Quota problem with one user

imaitchoukow · 12-07-2010, 08:07 AM

Hi guys, im kind of new in linux and my boss has a Debian Linux 5.0 running and mail server is squirrel, so here is the thing, the quota plugin when you access webmail shows the quota of the user full 100%, but when i run du -hs on the server is just 600K, i have erased the dovecot files of the Maildir's user to allow re-indexing (i read that somewhere), i have read about quota, quotatool all available manual and i can't find a way to reset the quota of the user shown when log into his account.

here you can see what the squirrel mail plugin shows when i log into user's account: http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/7...reenshotjw.png

this is what quota shows:

SERVER:/home# quota -us mborges
Disk quotas for user mborges (uid 2813):
Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace
/dev/mapper/vg0-home
291M* 280M 391M 6days 768 0 0

and the usage:

SERVER:/home# du -hs mborges
600K mborges

Reuti · 12-08-2010, 08:49 AM

Maybe there a sparse files inside, i.e. files which claim a bigger size, but due to seek operations they are currently using only 600K (they have "holes" inside; records which were never used up to now). What sizes do you get with

Code:

ls -ls

for the files inside the directory?

AFAIK these sparse files will count as having their advertised size regarding any quota limits.

Reuti · 12-08-2010, 08:58 AM

Code:

du -s --apparent-size

should show it.

imaitchoukow · 12-08-2010, 01:09 PM

hey thank for the help but seems it is the real disk usage:

SERVER:/home/mborges/Maildir# ls -lsh
total 148K
60K drwx------ 2 mborges mborges 56K dic 7 09:22 cur
4,0K -rw------- 1 mborges mborges 144 dic 7 09:22 dovecot.index
20K -rw------- 1 mborges mborges 18K dic 7 09:22 dovecot.index.cache
4,0K -rw------- 1 mborges mborges 908 dic 7 09:27 dovecot.index.log
4,0K -rw------- 1 mborges mborges 15 dic 7 09:27 dovecot-uidlist
48K drwx------ 2 mborges mborges 48K dic 8 11:30 new
4,0K -rw------- 1 mborges mborges 84 dic 6 10:40 subscriptions
4,0K drwx------ 2 mborges mborges 4,0K dic 8 11:30 tmp

the command:

SERVER:/home/mborges/Maildir# du -s --apparent-size
2294 .

I think it's a bug with the quotatool app,is there a way i can reset the quota of that particular user?

Well i'm guessing, you are the expert ^_^

Reuti · 12-08-2010, 01:24 PM

You can enter zeros for the quotas in edquota, and the user should no longer appear in repquota -av. Then enter the limits again.

BTW: Quotas are per mount point, not per directory. Are there anywhere else files of the same user (i.e. by accident in someone else's dircetory)?