On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 03:06:55PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Mar 09), Skylar Thompson said: > > there should be changes to mention that /etc/rc will only create the > > files with check_quota enabled, and also that creating zero-length > > files is not only unnecessary, but also dangerous. > > I don't know that the 0-byte quota files are the source of your > problem; I only know that they're not doing any good :)
It looks like they were the problem. I took the server down to single-user
mode, deleted the zero-size quota.{user,group} files, and then ran
quotacheck on that filesystem. After booting back up, the system ran
normally without hanging.
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