Disk qouta overflow. But where?

[AlphaXS_Mark]

Hi there,

got the following problem, at one of our servers:

On one user account, the disk indicator, says that there is moren than 700 mb uses up, while the qouta is 50 MB.

But when looking at the general overview it says me, that e-mail space is 2 mb
dbase space is 3mb
en bij looking at the files at the user space, all dirs, under the user root level) is tells me that this person is not using 50 mb at all.

He does run a cron job every 28 minutes.
So the most reliable reason would that be.

Strange thins is also,m that every 24 hours there comes 50 mb extra on the total using now.

So within 20 days, this user is using more than 2 gig.

Strange problem, on wich i really need some help.

Best regards,

Mark Bevelander

 

[jmstacey]

Is the entire user's home directory under 50mb? Log arvhive sizes?
What does quotacheck report when being run from the command line?

 

[AlphaXS_Mark]

Wow... easy..

Qoutacheck from the commandline? please explain yourself, because i i'm not at all familiar with a qoutacheck from the command line.

log file size is in no case at all over 50 mb.

thanx in advance,

best regards,

mark bevelander

 

[jmstacey]

So the entire user's home directory is under 50mb? (use something like "du -h")

When logged into the server via ssh as root, use repquota (what I meant to say) followed by the partion to get a report of the quota usage by everybody.

This might be related to your issue:
http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=39

 

[nobaloney]

find / -user username

Do the above as root, and change username to the username.

You'll get a list of all the files owned by the user.

Jeff

 

[AlphaXS_Mark]

I see,

so i'll find out, that there is a large file named as this user (wior85 is the username) in de dir: /var/mail/

This file is 1,2 gig large.

What is it? The user says not using that ammount of mail, and also the control tab is telling me, that the user is using max 4 mb of mail space.

Can i delete this file without having riscs?

thanx in advance

 

[nobaloney]

It's mail sent to that user. Either the user is storing email on the server or isn't reading the email at all.

You can delete the file; it will result in the loss of all email stored in it.

When new email comes in for the user the system will recreate the file.

Jeff

 

[AlphaXS_Mark]

ok, but why does the control panel not tell me
that this user is using so much space for their e-mail.

it tells me that the user is using 2 mb, instead of over 1,2 GB.

 

[jmstacey]

DirectAdmin recently added a configuration to count or not cound email disk usage, maybe it isn't set properly?

http://www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=488