On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 08:37:26PM -0500, Neil Aggarwal wrote:
Hello:
I am trying to set up user quotas on my /var partition to enforce limits on user's mailbox sizes. The machine is running CentOS 5.
When I do this: /sbin/dumpe2fs /dev/md2 | grep 'Block size' Block size: 4096
That tells me the block size is 4k.
the filesystem block size is basically the minimal used size for any allocated object.
But, if I do: repquota /var
It is telling me that one of my users is currently using 10264 blocks. But, if I look at their mail file, it is 10493792 bytes,
10493792/1024=10247 kilo bytes used
which means they should be using 2562 blocks or so.
no, the quota are expressed in kB units, not filesystem block unit.
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Any idea why dumpe2fs is giving a 4K block size?
Because they don't serve the same purpose.
Tru