[gpfsug-discuss] Odd entries in quota listing

[Jonathan Buzzard]

On Tue, 2016-08-23 at 13:58 +0000, Oesterlin, Robert wrote:
> In one of my file systems, I have some odd entries that seem to not be
> associated with a user - any ideas on the cause or how to track these
> down? This is a snippet from mmprepquota:
> 
>  
> 
>                          Block Limits
> |                     File Limits
> 
> Name       type             KB      quota      limit   in_doubt
> grace |    files   quota    limit in_doubt    grace
> 
> 2751555824 USR               0 1073741824 5368709120          0
> none |        0       0        0        0     none
> 
> 2348898617 USR               0 1073741824 5368709120          0
> none |        0       0        0        0     none
> 
> 2348895209 USR               0 1073741824 5368709120          0
> none |        0       0        0        0     none
> 
> 1610682073 USR               0 1073741824 5368709120          0
> none |        0       0        0        0     none
> 
> 536964752  USR               0 1073741824 5368709120          0
> none |        0       0        0        0     none
> 
> 403325529  USR               0 1073741824 5368709120          0
> none |        0       0        0        0     none
> 

I am guessing they are quotas that have been set for users that are now
deleted. GPFS stores the quota for a user under their UID, and deleting
the user and all their data is not enough to remove the entry from the
quota reporting, you also have to delete their quota.


JAB.

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