More user quota issues.

[adamillian]

I have seen many threads on this forum lately, but none have really answered the issue:

DirectAdmin is reporting some of my users to have almost double the disk space usage that they really have. Oddly enough, this is only happening on the "overall" disk space usage, though regular space usage is coming up correctly.

Case:

firewaterontherocks.com 1237.16 / unlimited 159.461 0.000000 0 no

is the top bar. Notice disk usage is at 159.461MB. However, the summary is different:

Total Disk Usage (meg) 318.8
Email Disk Usage 12.0 KB
Database Disk Usage 0.00 KB

Where would this extra space consumption come from? This is not the only user with this problem AND this behavior only started happening AFTER we restored from a backup.

Doing a "du" on the directory brings up:

[user@whateverthedomain admin20]# du -h --max-depth=1
4.0K    ./mail
161M    ./domains
8.0K    ./imap
161M    .

Help?

 

[nobaloney]

What you call the top bar usage probably includes all files on the server owned by the user.

Jeff

 

[adamillian]

Ok, so, how is it less than total disk usage?

Where do I purge stuff to get total disk usage down, as actual files owned by the user is HALF of that, and that user has run out of space.

I do not want to raise my quota, because the user is paying for a certain amount of space. If I have to raise disk space for the user, what is the formula for how much space they can use vs. how much the system says they have available?

 

[nobaloney]

The way to determine that is, for a given user, to use the find command to find all files owned by the user.

Jeff