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. ... > > Any idea why dumpe2fs is giving a 4K block size? Because they don't serve the same purpose. Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B
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