Linux – quota giving (seemingly) incorrect values

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After some porting and moving of drives and so forth, our new system reports my user account as being well over the quota limit setup. I am now supposedly using 135GB, but my quota is 21GB.

I can't seem to find where this space is being used, however.

I re-ran quotacheck to update the quota files, which didn't change anything.

The drive mount point is /home.

When I check the disk usage on my home directory with du -s /home/madeleine I find that I have 2GB of usage in my home dir. Looking through the home directory with ls, I don't find any other directories being owned by me.

So… where is this usage coming from? It doesn't appear to be my home directory, and I don't see usage anywhere else on the drive.

Can I get a better break down from quota or from another utility?

I have the possibility to elevate to root if need be.

Regards,
Madeleine.

Best Answer

I found a ton of files in a backup directory that an admin had made [and saved in /home/backups]. The ownership of the files was the same, so it counted against my quota.

Here's how I searched. In this case, I searched the whole file system. Searching /home would have sufficed for this case.

find / -type f -user madeleine -print0 | du -ch --files0-from=- > myFiles.txt

Regards, Madeleine

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Understanding “quota” output

Block is normally of size 1 kilobytes nowadays, but it might be also 512 bytes - check this yourself.

6094452 is how many blocks of disk space you currently use,
the first 2147483648 is the maximum you are expected to normally use (again in blocks, note it translates to 2 TB, not to 10 GB); you can grow beyond, but only temporarily;
the second 2147483648 is how much you are allowed to use,
the empty place that comes next is the "grace period"; it is used only when you exceed "quota", i.e. when you are between "quota" and "limit",
365672 is how many files you currently have (inodes, to be more exact),
the remaining columns have the same meaning, but in regard to the "files" field; but they are 0, which means you have no quota on number of files

Linux – Setting Quota Per Directory

If you're forced to use ext3, then using LVM is probably your best solution. Create a new filesystem per project. That would look something like this:

# Create a 10g filesystem for "project1" in volume group "vg0"
lvcreate -L 10g -n project1 vg0

# Create an ext3 filesystem.
mke2fs -j /dev/vg0/project1

# Mount it (obviously you would want this in /etc/fstab)
mount /dev/vg0/project1 /projects/project1

Growing the project filesystems is easy:

# Add 2GB to the volume.
lvextend -L +2g /dev/vg0/project1

# Grow the filesystem.
resize2fs /dev/vg0/project1

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