Quotas are based on file ownership, not location. The files owned by the over-quota users may be in another user's directory...
try:
find /partition -user victim -ls
where /partition is the partition where the quotars are applied.
Luca Ferrari wrote:
Hello,....
I've got some problems using disk quotas, or better I saw some strange behaviors that I cannot explain to myself.
This is the situation: one file server (Linux debian 3.0 r2) with homes mounted by client (debian too) through NFS. Users cannot access directly to the server, and this means the only directories they can see is their home, mounted thru NFS.
But from a few days I found some users with large amounts of disk usage, exceeding the quota (and thus unable to save files), but I cannot find their files! In other words, checking their home they don't seem to use more space than the quota limit. I have already tried with find, to see all their files,
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