All accounts showing 0 Meg quota usage (fixquotas does not help)

[cretu]

Hi there,

I am hainvg problem on server, basically, all accounts are shpowing 0 Megs usage quota.

I have tried /scripts/fixquota couple of time but it did not correct the problem.

Also, I have checked users accounts and files are properly chown.

Is there anything else I could do?

Please advice.

Cretu

[cretu]

Update:

I have ran filesystem checkups, checked fstab - all in place. However, I have noticed that files:

quota.user and quota.group

are 0 KB i /home, /usr and /var partitions.

But quota.user is showing 0.98 MB in / partition.

I have tried copying this over to other partitions and runnig fixquotas but it did not help.

Can anyone suggest area I can look into to fix 0 MEG display for all account on this server.

Also, all users' account are chowned properly.

Regards,
Cretu

[bazzi]

I have the same problem.

is there a fix for?

[eth00]

Did you ever enable quotas? It sounds like the filesystem might not support it.

[kris1351]

Check what eth00 said, re-enabled the initial quota and try running fixquotas again. We had this problem a couple of months ago on a server and it turned out to be an ide channel issue. It physically couldn't turn on quotas. I would check all of your settings then contact your DC if that doesn't work.

[cretu]

Hi,

It turned out that I had to reboot this server and run the command 'fsck -fy /dev/hda8' via shell while booting with the option 'init=/bin/bash' to repair quota on /home partition.

The FSCK deleted over 6000+ bad inodes (!). After this I have ran command /scripts/fixquotas and this has fixed the problem.

However, I am wondering how come FSCK found so many bad inodes, since I am running this server on low to average load and it had no problems at all in part.

Thank you all for your suggestions.

Regards,
Cretu

[coastinc]

HD could be going bad, possibly doing hard reboots instead of soft reboots, old drive, etc. many reason.... Be sure to have backups as always.