On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Claudio wrote:
> To be exact, even root cannot see the right quota for a user on ext3 > filesystem. The files aquota.* are never up-to-date if root does not run > quotacheck. The only thing that really suggest you are out of quota is the > message "disk quota exceeded" while you're working. In my opinion, it > means that quota does NOT work on ext3. ;-) > >From the Quota HowTo: Quotacheck is used to scan a file system for disk usages, and updates the quota record file "aquota.user" to the most recent state. I recommend running quotacheck at system bootup, and via cronjob periodically (say, every week?). ---------------------------------- snip ------------------------------- To me this implies that things are working as designed. Whether or not that is your desired behavior is another question, but in testing it I didn't set out to redesign the quota system, simply to verify that it was working. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc
