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tjwoosta

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Registered: 2008-12-18

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[solved] disk quota help please

I followed the wiki for setting up a disk quota for user polipo. Im now at the point where I configure the settings  (edquota polipo)

This is what I see

 Disk quotas for user polipo (uid 999):
 Filesystem                   blocks       soft       hard     inodes     soft    hard
 /dev/sda3                        12          0          0          5        0        0

My question is how does this work?  I mean I know what the wiki says

blocks
1k blocks
inodes
Number of entries in directory file
soft
Max number of blocks/inodes user may have on partition before warning is issued and grace period countdown begins. If set to "0" (zero) then no limit is enforced.
hard
Max number of blocks/inodes user may have on partition. If set to "0" (zero) then no limit is enforced.

For blocks do I just put what df shows for /dev/sda3 (20641788)? Im lost, why doesnt it automatically determine the blocks field?

EDIT: lol, just noticed I said du, I meand df

Last edited by tjwoosta (2011-02-28 06:19:30)

tjwoosta

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Registered: 2008-12-18

Posts: 453

Re: [solved] disk quota help please

Ok, well I tried setting the blocks and inode sizes, but found that Im not allowed to change them, so apparently they are automatically determined. Now Im just completely confused.

Why would disk quota only see 12 blocks and 5 inodes when that partition is actually about 15gb?

heres complete df output

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev                     10240       220     10020   3% /dev
/dev/sda3             20641788  10384160   9208988  53% /
shm                     507432         0    507432   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1               101105     15569     80315  17% /boot
/dev/sda4             93595684  62933804  25907444  71% /home
192.168.1.60:/home/laurie/Public/.torrents
                      38804448  36731584    101696 100% /home/tj/Shared/Torrents
192.168.1.60:/home/laurie/Public/.downloads
                      38804448  36731584    101696 100% /home/tj/Shared/Downloads

tjwoosta

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Registered: 2008-12-18

Posts: 453

Re: [solved] disk quota help please

Now I have a theory that the user polipo that I created according to the polipo wiki page doesnt have proper read permissions in /

The entire polipo wiki page makes absolutely no sense to me. Whoever created it left a ton of important stuff out.  For instance they instructed me to change ownership of  /var/lib/polipo/*, /var/cache/polipo/*, and /var/run/polipo/* to user polipo, but they never mention how user polipo is supposed to even get to those directories when it has no read permissions in /, wtf

Am I missing something important thats supposed to be obvious?

Last edited by tjwoosta (2011-02-27 21:34:57)

tjwoosta

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Registered: 2008-12-18

Posts: 453

Re: [solved] disk quota help please

Well I figured it out...

I was totally wrong about the permissions.  The blocks field actually means blocks that are already used, not total blocks availible, same with inodes.

Ill try to modify the disk quota wiki page to make this apparent.