Bug 14143

Comment 1 mpp 1999-10-06 13:55:47 UTC

> >Number:         14143
> >Synopsis:       Difference between number of blocks and size in bytes*512
> >Description:
> My file quota.user have difference between size reported by stat->st_size and
> stat->st_block. st_size is 37448 times larger than st_block.
> >How-To-Repeat:
> Very hard to say. I have 4gb partition and about 160 users. And quota system
> just did so odd file. 

The quota system will create sparse files (large gaps of
unwritten zero filled blocks are not actually allocated disk
space), which is probably why the file size is so much larger 
than the actual number of blocks used by the quota file.

Do you have extremely large gaps in your UID space?  Is the file system
NFS mounted on other systems, and is it possible that something tried
to set a uid/gid to -2 or some such value on a file on the filesystem
in question?

Try running "find -nouser -nogroup /filesystem" to try and find
any files that have a uid/gid that are not assigned in /etc/passwd.
These are usually the files that cause the quota file to
appear to be so large.

-Mike
-- 
Mike Pritchard
mpp@FreeBSD.org or mpp@mpp.pro-ns.net

Comment 2 mpp 1999-10-07 11:48:42 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->mpp

I've already sent a followup to the originator, so I'll handle 
this until I hear something back. 

Comment 3 mpp 1999-10-08 10:56:58 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

iSubmitter states that the problem was with unassigned uids/or very large 
uids existing in the file system, which created a very large spare 
^spare^sparse 
quota file.