Quotas and deleted users

[Ed Wilts]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 02:37:06PM -0400, Ryan Golhar wrote:
> I thought that the files might be in someone else's directory, but
> doesn't the permission of the file automatically get set to the owner of
> the directory? 

Nope. 
 
> The only other thing I can think of is that the quota file needs to be
> recreated...

You can start by searching for files owned by the original UID:

# find /home -uid <whatever> -print

If that doesn't find any, then your quota file may be out of date.  You
could rebuild it (man quotacheck).

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Ed Wilts, RHCE
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