[TriLUG] Kernel/Quota errors

[Janyne Kizer]

After fixing it we restarted the server since there were no users on
it.  It sounds like it would be worth trying again though.  Maybe
removed, remount, recreate, remount this time.

Jon Carnes wrote:
> 
> I would guess that the quota file was corrupt.  As I understand it, this
> file needs to be in good working order when the volume in mounted or
> quota's won't work.  After you fixed the file, did you unmount/mount the
> volume?
> 
> On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 14:16, Janyne Kizer wrote:
> > I was wondering if anyone on this list has experience dealing with
> > errors such as this:
> >
> > VFS: find_free_dqentry(): Data block full but it shouldn't.
> > VFS: Error -5 occured while creating quota.
> >
> > One of my servers had a disk error (could not come back up after reboot,
> > needed to do a repair) and ever since they it has had quota problems.
> > The error was on /home and that is also where the quotas are.  We have
> > recreated the quota file once and the errors continue to occur.
> > Quotacheck does not resolve the problem, in fact, the errors are
> > reporting the first time quotacheck is run.  The drive was mounted
> > ext3.  We were thinking that perhaps the journal was bad and mounted it
> > ext2 but that made no difference.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> > --
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Janyne Kizer
CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5
Systems Programmer Administrator I
NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
Extension and Administrative Technology Services