User quotas - Whats System Quotas ?

sky

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Hello

I have a user that went from 27GB to 36.33 GB overnight and i cant find where this consumption comes from.

Wen i check the users breakdown, i get this :
PHP:
4.00 KB	/etc/virtual/domain.com/majordomo	Yes
4.00 KB	/etc/virtual/domain.com/majordomo	Yes
4.00 KB	/etc/virtual/domain.fr/majordomo	Yes
56.0 KB	/etc/virtual/domain.com/majordomo	Yes
84.0 KB	/etc/virtual/domain.com/majordomo	Yes
52.9 MB	apache owned files in /home/meads/domains/domain.fr	Yes
53.2 MB	apache owned files in /home/meads/domains/domain.com	Yes
79.7 MB	apache owned files in /home/meads/domains/domain.com	Yes
91.3 MB	apache owned files in /home/meads/domains/domain.com	Yes
117.1 MB	MySQL Databases	Yes
35.95 GB	System Quotas	Yes

Wen i check the quota in the /home/meads dir, i get :
PHP:
du /home/meads -sh
19G     /home/meads

I dont understand where Directadmin finds 36.33 GB

This user has 17.59 GB of emails (IMAP)

I have also checked /var/ and /etc/virtual but with no luck...

Thank-you for your help.
Regards.
 
Hello SCSI

I did :
Code:
find / -user meads > a.txt

Here are the only files i can find that dont seams to be in the correct location.
Code:
/var/spool/mail/meads
/proc/9418
/proc/9418/task
/proc/9418/task/9418
/proc/9418/task/9418/fd
/proc/9418/task/9418/fd/0
/proc/9418/task/9418/fd/1
/proc/9418/task/9418/fd/2
/proc/9418/task/9418/fd/3
/proc/9418/task/9418/fd/4
/proc/9418/task/9418/fd/5
/proc/9418/task/9418/fd/6
/proc/9418/task/9418/fd/7
/proc/9418/task/9418/fd/8
/proc/9418/task/9418/fd/9
/proc/9418/task/9418/fd/10
/proc/9418/task/9418/fd/11
/proc/9418/task/9418/fd/12
/proc/9418/task/9418/fd/13
/proc/9418/task/9418/fd/14
/proc/9418/task/9418/fd/16
/proc/9418/task/9418/environ
/proc/9418/task/9418/auxv
/proc/9418/task/9418/status
/proc/9418/task/9418/cmdline
/proc/9418/task/9418/stat
/proc/9418/task/9418/statm
/proc/9418/task/9418/maps
/proc/9418/task/9418/numa_maps
/proc/9418/task/9418/mem
/proc/9418/task/9418/cwd
/proc/9418/task/9418/root
/proc/9418/task/9418/exe
/proc/9418/task/9418/mounts
/proc/9418/task/9418/smaps
/proc/9418/task/9418/attr
/proc/9418/task/9418/attr/current
/proc/9418/task/9418/attr/prev
/proc/9418/task/9418/attr/exec
/proc/9418/task/9418/attr/fscreate
/proc/9418/task/9418/attr/keycreate
/proc/9418/task/9418/attr/sockcreate
/proc/9418/task/9418/wchan
/proc/9418/task/9418/schedstat
/proc/9418/task/9418/cpuset
/proc/9418/task/9418/oom_score
/proc/9418/task/9418/oom_adj
/proc/9418/task/9418/loginuid
/proc/9418/task/9418/limits
/proc/9418/task/9418/io
/proc/9418/fd
/proc/9418/fd/0
/proc/9418/fd/1
/proc/9418/fd/2
/proc/9418/fd/3
/proc/9418/fd/4
/proc/9418/fd/5
/proc/9418/fd/6
/proc/9418/fd/7
/proc/9418/fd/8
/proc/9418/fd/9
/proc/9418/fd/10
/proc/9418/fd/11
/proc/9418/fd/12
/proc/9418/fd/13
/proc/9418/fd/14
/proc/9418/fd/16
/proc/9418/environ
/proc/9418/auxv
/proc/9418/status
/proc/9418/cmdline
/proc/9418/stat
/proc/9418/statm
/proc/9418/maps
/proc/9418/numa_maps
/proc/9418/mem
/proc/9418/cwd
/proc/9418/root
/proc/9418/exe
/proc/9418/mounts
/proc/9418/mountstats
/proc/9418/smaps
/proc/9418/attr
/proc/9418/attr/current
/proc/9418/attr/prev
/proc/9418/attr/exec
/proc/9418/attr/fscreate
/proc/9418/attr/keycreate
/proc/9418/attr/sockcreate
/proc/9418/wchan
/proc/9418/schedstat
/proc/9418/cpuset
/proc/9418/oom_score
/proc/9418/oom_adj
/proc/9418/loginuid
/proc/9418/limits
/proc/9418/coredump_filter
/proc/9418/io

Is this normal ?
It does not look normal... no other users ave this.

Damned.
 
Last edited:
You're not only looking for files which don't seem to be in the correct location, you're looking for all files owned by your user. For more information on the /proc filesystem, Google this: what is the /proc directory

Did you ever convert your system to Maildir from mbox? If so, did you ever delete the old mbox files after making sure that Maildir was working properly?

Jeff
 
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