> On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:20:08 -0400 > Scott Adkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> We have a user that was reporting that she was way *way* over her quota. >> She was alotted only 100MB, and for some reason, she was showing that >> she >> was using over 400MB of space on her IMAP account! Furthermore, looking >> at actual disk space consumption, she waas actually only using 261KB, >> which is barely anything at all. > > Can confirm this on 2.2.6 and 2.2.8. My quota fixing script ran over our > tree tonight and found mailboxes as large as 900mb (our quotas are 10mb by > default). Looks like for these quota was not being updated at all. > I also have many situations where user complains about being 10 times over > quota while they just deleted all their unneeded mail .. > >> I have yet to figure out a "good way" to fix this discrepancy. I >> thought >> that maybe doing a recursive reconstruct on her account would maybe sync >> up her quota entry to what was actually in use. Nope. I thought that >> the >> quota command would be able to do something with it, again nope, unless >> I >> am just missing an option somwehere. I even used cyradm to do a >> "setquota" on the user to see if it would fix it, and again it did not. > > I use a shell script that rewrites the quota files. Altough i have no idea > why cyrus doesnt like to modify them on its own. Permissions are ok ... > > > I first noticed this quota issue a while ago running quota -f -d. After > that > some quotas were really off ...
On which version did you run quota -f? There were some real problems with everything > 2.2.3 and < 2.2.8. Simon --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
