Found some bug reports on FreeBSD that indicate that the quota system doesn’t like files that are owned by unknown users.
This bug indicates, among other things, that quotacheck doesn’t like files that are owned by unknown users. I’ve done some searching on PAX, and it looks like I deleted the accounts of a bunch of summer 2002 students, but never deleted their home directories. I’m currently in the process of deleting these dangling files. We’ll try quotas later this week, perhaps, and see whether it works or not.
Posted by Rowan Littell at November 17, 2003 03:22 PM