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01-30-2003

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Thanks perdarabo

I inherited this firewall, and believe me, i am in total agreement about the logs on root thing, but at the moment the logs are extremely minimal in size and were used as an example of my inability to write to the disk. I also accept that df is reporting ok after trying df -k /proc, my apologies. However why when i run du -sk * on root does it report 2.6 gig on /proc and subsequently stop me writing to that disk. If /proc is virtual and is a reflection of processes running, does that mean that 2.6 gig of my disk space on root is being used by o/s and firewall daemons/processes, because that is all thats running on the box ( the o/s has been hardened and stripped down to basics), if so, i would find that hard to comprehend. (the firewall manufacturer does not indicate anything about 3 gig of space to run in its minimum spec).With all due respect to your suggestion of using kill -9 on the process ids, im sure you can appreciate that in a production environment this is not something i can do. Put basically, if there are 2.6 gigs being used by a few processes then something must be wrong, and I still need a workable suggestion if anyone has one

Any help would be greatly appreciated

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quotacheck

quotacheck(1M)						  System Administration Commands					    quotacheck(1M)

NAME

       quotacheck - ufs file system quota consistency checker

SYNOPSIS

       quotacheck [-fp] [-v] filesystem...

       quotacheck -a [-fpv]

DESCRIPTION

       quotacheck  examines  each  mounted  ufs file system, builds a table of current disk usage, and compares this table against the information
       stored in the file system's disk quota file. If any inconsistencies are detected, both the quota file and the current system  copy  of  the
       incorrect quotas are updated.

       filesystem is either a file system mount point or the block device  on which the file system resides.

       quotacheck  expects  each file system to be checked to have a quota file named quotas in the root directory. If none is present, quotacheck
       will not check the file system.

       quotacheck accesses the character special device in calculating the actual disk usage for each  user.  Thus,  the  file	systems  that  are
       checked should be quiescent while quotacheck is running.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -a	Check the file systems which /etc/mnttab indicates are ufs file systems.  These file systems must be read-write mounted  with disk
		quotas enabled, and have an rq entry in the mntopts field in /etc/vfstab.

       -f	Force check on file systems with logging enabled. Use in combination with the -p option.

       -p	Check quotas of file systems in parallel. For file systems with logging enabled, no check is performed unless  the  -f	option	is
		also specified.

       -v	Indicate the calculated disk quotas for each user on a particular file system. quotacheck normally reports only those quotas modi-
		fied.

USAGE

       See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of quotacheck when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes).

FILES

       /etc/mnttab     Mounted file systems

       /etc/vfstab     List of default parameters for each file system

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       edquota(1M), quota(1M), quotaon(1M), repquota(1M), attributes(5), largefile(5), quotactl(7I), mount_ufs(1M)

SunOS 5.10							    31 Jul 1998 						    quotacheck(1M)

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