Any chance to run mmcheckquota? which should remove all "doubt"...
On 2014 Nov 27. md, at 17:47 st, Jonathan Buzzard wrote: > On Wed, 2014-11-26 at 10:14 +0000, Laurence Alexander Hurst wrote: >> Hmm, mmrepquota is reporting no files owned by any of the users in >> question. I¹ll see if `find` disagrees. >> They have the default fileset >> user quotas applied, so they¹re not users we¹ve edited to grant quota >> extensions to. We have had a problem (which IBM have acknowledged, iirc) >> whereby it is not possible to reset a user¹s quota back to the default if >> it has been modified, perhaps this is related? I¹ll see if `find` turns >> anything up or I¹ll raise a ticket with IBM and see what they think. >> >> I¹ve pulled out a single example, but all 75 users I have are the same. >> >> mmrepquota gpfs | grep 8695 >> 8695 nbu USR 0 0 5368709120 0 >> none | 0 0 0 0 none >> 8695 bb USR 0 0 1073741824 0 >> none | 0 0 0 0 none >> > > While the number of files and usage is zero look at those "in doubt" > numbers. Until these also fall to zero then the users are not going to > disappear from the quota reporting would be my guess. Quite why the "in > doubt" numbers are still so large is another question. I have vague > recollections of this happening to me when I deleted large amounts of > data belonging to a user down to zero when I was clearing the file > system up I mentioned before. Though to be honest most of my clearing up > was identifying who the files really belonged to (there had in the > distance past been a change of usernames; gone from local usernames to > using the university wide ones and not everyone had claimed their files. > All related to a move to using Active Directory) and doing chown's on > the data. > > I think what happens is when the file number goes to zero the quota > system stops updating for that user and if there is anything "in doubt" > it never gets updated and sticks around forever. > > Might be worth creating a couple of files for the user in the > appropriate filesets and then give it a bit of time and see if the > output of mmrepquota matches what you believe is the real case. If this > works and the "in doubt" number goes to zero I would at this point do a > chown to a different user that is not going away and then delete the > files. > > Something else to consider is that they might be in an ACL somewhere > which is confusing the quota system. > > > JAB. > > -- > Jonathan A. Buzzard Email: jonathan (at) buzzard.me.uk > Fife, United Kingdom. > > > _______________________________________________ > gpfsug-discuss mailing list > gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org > http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss _______________________________________________ gpfsug-discuss mailing list gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss
