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From: dieter@jupiter.nmt.edu (The Demented Teddy Bear)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Quotas on Sun 3 running 4.0.1
Keywords: SunOS
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Date: 6 May 89 19:17:36 GMT
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Original-Date: Fri, 28 Apr 89 00:43:04 MDT
X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 273, message 15 of 23

I've been noticing serious discrepancies between actual disk usage and
what quota reports for some users.  The most blatant case is the user
``news''.  The scenario:

	news% quota -v
	Filesystem     usage  quota  limit    timeleft
	/home          31866 180000 300000
	root# quotacheck /home
	news% quota -v
	Filesystem     usage  quota  limit    timeleft
	/home          51103 180000 300000

Now, I can handle it being off a couple hundred kb, since news comes in
over nntp fairly often, but 20 Mb ?!  This is standard.  I'm assuming that
quotacheck gets it fairly close, even on a live system.

The system is a Sun 3/280 running 4.0.1, sharing file server
responsibilities with another 3/280.  The nntp stuff only runs on this
machine and all news- related files live on this machine.

Ideas?

Dieter Muller
P.S.  Anybody wanna buy a recently rebuilt DEC-20?