dont understand disk quota output

[jechilt]

Need a bit of help...

I wanted to look at my disk quota and found some entries that are not "users". Can anyone tell me what they are?

Note: they are the ones that start with '#'

justxcom  --     519  512000  512000             22     0     0
#3030     --   14712  768000  768000           1723     0     0
stockdom  --  349544  512000  512000           4050     0     0
#1003     --   50688       0       0           5488     0     0
#1000     --      37       0       0             13     0     0
#1007     --    1651       0       0            545     0     0
#750      --       6       0       0              6     0     0
admin     -- 5841723       0       0          1

Any help is appreciated...

 

[nobaloney]

If they begin with numbers they generally refer to files owned by users where the users have been deleted from the server but their files weren't.

Jeff

 

[vod]

Hi,

I am seeing the same thing. Is there a way to locate those files and delete them?

Thanks

 

[nobaloney]

Note that you may not want to delete all of them; sometimes files such as these are the result of unpacking a tarball that was created on someone else's machine. Bad packaging, yes, but if you need the package, you have to live with it.

You can find them using the find command .

Read man find for details on how to find all the files belonging to a certain user (uid).

(You do have to know the specific numeric uids you're looking for.)

Jeff