04-21-2001
Dear Group,
I am not much used to UNIX. The company I am hosting wiht refuses to help me with this trouble, but as near as I can see, it is NOT my trouble.
I have had this service for over a year. I just renewed for another year and all of a sudden the disk quota has been disappearing. I deleted all files that grow like log files, mail archives, bounces, stuff like that.
But, the used space keeps growing and now the disk quota is completely full. I have deleted nearly every file off the server and yet the used space keeps growing.
When I tell the owner of the hosting company that this is happening and asked for an explaination, he basically told me he couldn't explain that and that I was stupid for asking.
One person did tell me that there might be some hidden files which I would never be able to see or delete and that what ever was in them is growing. Is this true?
This problem started one week ago, the day after I renewed my serivce. However, I had not added any files to the server after renewing the contract.
I am currently trying to move to a different server because of his repeated poor customer service, but I need to know if this is true about the hidden files and what one can do about this situation I am in if it ever happens again.
Thank you.
cindy
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quotasync
QUOTASYNC(1) General Commands Manual QUOTASYNC(1)
NAME
quotasync - synchronize in-kernel file system usage and limits to disk format
SYNOPSIS
quotasync [ -ug ] mount-point...
quotasync [ -ug ] -a
quotasync -h | -V
DESCRIPTION
quotasync flushes file system usage and limits from kernel memory to quota files stored in the file system. By default only the user quotas
are synchronized.
This tool can be useful if you want to display accurate quotas by tools that parse quota files, like repquota(8).
OPTIONS
-u, --user
Synchronize user usage and limits.
-g, --group
Synchronize group usage and limits.
-a, --all
Synchronize usage and limits on all file systems. You have to specify this option or to specify desired file systems.
-V, --version
Show program version information and exit.
-h, --help
Show program usage and exit.
DIAGNOSTICS
If requested synchronization fails, or invalid option is given, quotasync will terminate with non-zero exit code. Otherwise it will return
zero.
FILES
aquota.user or aquota.group
Quota file at the file system root (version 2 quota, non-XFS/GFS2 file systems).
quota.user or quota.group
Quota file at the file system root (version 1 quota, non-XFS/GFS2 file systems).
/etc/mtab List of mounted file systems maintained by user space.
/proc/mounts List of mounted file systems maintained by kernel.
SEE ALSO
quota(1), quotactl(2), mount(8), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8), repquota(8), warnquota(8).
QUOTASYNC(1)