[Gllug] Annoying quota problem.

[Joel Bernstein]

On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 03:56:42PM +0100, Benjamin Donnachie wrote:
> 
> I recently deleted a user, and their files, from my system but they keep
> appearing in my quota reports:
> 
> # /usr/sbin/repquota -tsa
> *** Report for user quotas on device /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02
> Block grace time: 7days; Inode grace time: 7days
>                         Block limits                File limits
> User            used    soft    hard  grace    used  soft  hard  grace
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> [...]
> #504      --      12   18000   20000              3     0     0
> 
> I've even tried find / -uid 504 but that fails to find them.  Any ideas
> where these three files are hiding? :-/

Do they have any processes still running? Those files won't actually be
deleted until they're closed, so if the user has running processes with
open files, you'll see the behaviour you're seeing.

/joel
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