Hi, I have exactly the same problem that you experienced in Nov, 2013. I am using ext4 with journaled quota and the quota usage is only updating when I run quotacheck manually. Have you found a solution? Regards, Alex > I have set up user quotas on an ext4 filesystem. It does not appear that > the quota system is being updated, except when I manually run quotacheck. > > More detail: I run "warnquota -s" from a script in /etc/cron.daily. I > noticed that no one had received an "over quota" message in a long time. > Using "repquota -as", it indeed looked as though everyone was under their > quotas. But "du" showed many people were over quota. So I did a "quotaoff > -a ; quotacheck -vam ; quotaon -a". That night, several > warnquota-generated messages went out. My users diligently cleaned up > their homes. Fast forward 24 hours, and the users received the same > warnquota emails. repquota showed them as being over, but "du" told a > different story. > > System is CentOS 6.3, kernel 2.6.32-279.2.1.el6.x86_64. > > # dmesg | grep -i quota > VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2 > > > The partition is type ext4 mounted at /share: > > # cat /proc/mounts | grep share > /dev/mapper/VolGroup_Share-LogVol_Share /share ext4 > rw,noatime,nodiratime,barrier=0,nobh,data=writeback,jqfmt=vfsv0,usrjquota=aquota.user > 0 0 > > The ext4 volume sits on top of an lvm logical partion. That logical volume > ultimately sits on top of an encrypted disk using cryptsetup luksFormat: > > # lvscan > ACTIVE '/dev/VolGroup_Share/LogVol_Share' [4.48 TiB] inherit > > # pvscan > PV /dev/mapper/luks-7f865362-ee9f-40de-bc07-73701b4662f3 VG > VolGroup_Share lvm2 [4.48 TiB / 0 free] > > Is there something in my ext4 mount options that is incompatible with > quota? Or maybe the encrypted layer is causing problems? Am I missing > something else? > > Thanks!