[plug] quotas and hidden files

James Devenish devenish at guild.uwa.edu.au
Fri Dec 12 10:47:43 WST 2003


In message <077D932C-2C4D-11D8-99AD-000A957FACDA at globaldial.com>
on Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 10:43:55AM +0800, Adam Hewitt wrote:
> anyone have an idea where these extra files could be hiding, or more 

Anywhere that he is allowed to write on the quota volume.

> however if you go into his directory du is showing that
> he is using half of what edquota is telling me he is using.

Watch out for the difference between 'blocks' and 'bytes'. It is
possible that one of the programmes is showing 512-byte blocks while the
other is showing kilobytes. There's a 1:2 ratio between the two ;-)





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