Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!rice!sun-spots-request From: hugh@slee01.srl.ford.com (Hugh Fader) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Disk Quotas Keywords: Miscellaneous Message-ID: <6631@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 12 Apr 90 12:53:05 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 22 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 118, message 8 I'm trying to set up disk quotas on a Sun Sparcstation I. I have encountered something I don't understand. TFM says that quotas are specified in 1K blocks so a quota of 1000 is 1 Mb of disk space. The output from the quota command doesn't agree with this. For example user smith has a 20 Mb disk quota on /home. The output from quota is. # quota -v smith Disk quotas for smith (uid 103): Filesystem usage quota limit timeleft files quota limit timeleft /home 6 20000 21000 0 0 0 What is the usage of 6 mean? If I do a du on smith's account I get: # du -s ~smith 12703 /home/smith Smith does own all the files in this account. Another account with about 12 Mb of use (obtained from du) shows 0 usage from the quota command. I don't understand. Can somebody out there educate me? Hugh Fader hugh@slee01.srl.ford.com