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Homework and Emergencies Emergency UNIX and Linux Support Disk quota exceeded (difference btw. du and df, again!) Post 302675161 by mregine on Sunday 22nd of July 2012 02:50:21 AM
Old 07-22-2012
Thanks jlliagre & otheus. I think that's the conclusion Dave came to, too. What confused me was the output from df -kh ., with the /home/myuser next to the 100%, and not, say, /home or /home/some-subgroup. I had never seen users mentioned there and I interpreted it wrong. I thought du and df would then both measure the same thing. Actually, now I think there may be a process running amok somewhere (which doesn't belong to me), because I did manage to clean up a few M of files and the space was taken up immediately.

otheus, I considered that but since many posts on the du/df difference suggested admins might have to reboot the machine to fix the problem, I figured /tmp wasn't the best place. Luckily there is another scratch directory somewhere in which I can work :-) Of course I could also take Sunday off, but I like working when it's nice and quiet (and then taking off during the week when there's too much going on).

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VFS_DEFAULT_QUOTA(8)					    System Administration tools 				      VFS_DEFAULT_QUOTA(8)

NAME
vfs_default_quota - store default quota records for Windows clients SYNOPSIS
vfs objects = default_quota DESCRIPTION
This VFS module is part of the samba(7) suite. Many common quota implementations only store quotas for users and groups, but do not store a default quota. The vfs_default_quota module allows Samba to store default quota values which can be examined using the Windows Explorer interface. By default, Samba returns NO_LIMIT the default quota and refuses to update them. vfs_default_quota maps the default quota to the quota record of a user. By default the root user is taken because quota limits for root are typically not enforced. This module is stackable. OPTIONS
default_quota:uid = UID UID specifies the user ID of the quota record where the default user quota values are stored. default_quota:gid = GID GID specifies the group ID of the quota record where the default group quota values are stored. default_quota:uid nolimit = BOOL If this parameter is True, then the user whose quota record is storing the default user quota will be reported as having a quota of NO_LIMIT. Otherwise, the stored values will be reported. default_quota:gid nolimit = BOOL If this parameter is True, then the group whose quota record is storing the default group quota will be reported as having a quota of NO_LIMIT. Otherwise, the stored values will be reported. EXAMPLES
Store the default quota record in the quota record for the user with ID 65535 and report that user as having no quota limits: [global] vfs objects = default_quota default_quota:uid = 65535 default_quota:uid nolimit = yes VERSION
This man page is correct for version 3.0.25 of the Samba suite. AUTHOR
The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed. Samba 4.0 06/17/2014 VFS_DEFAULT_QUOTA(8)
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