We noticed a big change in the workings of the quota command when moving
from RHEL3 to CentOS5.
Under RHEL3 (quota-3.10-7), quota -v essentially lists the fs quotas for
all users logged into the local machine. Under CentOS5 (quota-3.13-1.2.5.el5),
only one user quota is displayed, and while the actual data seems to be
correct, the attribution is usually wrong. E.g.
$ whoami
user1
$ quota -v
Disk quotas for user user1 (uid 12345):
Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace
nfs:/vol/vol2/user2
2596260 4194304 4194304 406132 614400 614400
$
This is for NFS quotas. We don't use local Linux quotas, and I haven't tested
them.
I don't know how this stuff works under the hood; is it possible that
underlying kernel structures have changed, or some kernel config was
dropped? I compiled the latest quota tools on both RHEL3 and CentOS5
and found the same behaviour, so the quota tools themselves are most
likely not at fault.
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