Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!watdcsu!payne From: payne@watdcsu.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: Diskquota vs. Directory /by_owner /grand /size Message-ID: <3684@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> Date: Mon, 27-Jul-87 07:42:52 EDT Article-I.D.: watdcsu.3684 Posted: Mon Jul 27 07:42:52 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 28-Jul-87 01:38:11 EDT References: <870721230322.0000070C0D1@cuchem.chem.columbia.edu> <1729@dino.cpe.ulowell.edu> Reply-To: payne@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Doug Payne) Distribution: world Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 24 In article <1729@dino.cpe.ulowell.edu> rimbold@dino.cpe.ulowell.edu (Rob Rimbold) writes: > >*** > >The diskquota utility gets its information from the Quota.Sys file >on each disk. That file is updated periodically by the file system. >Reason number 1 why the dir/size/grand didn't match up to what >the Diskquota utility reported. > >Reason number 2, is that the dir/size/grand reports only the *actual* >which amount of data in the file. The file may actually have allocated >more space than it is currently using. You may look at how much space it >has allocated with a Dir/size=All. Even then, I'm not entirely sure whether >or not that the size of the file headers are taken into account.. Not to mention file headers, which I believe are included in disk quotas, but not in DIR/SIZE. If you check a newly created user, with only a root directory to her/his name, you'll probably find that the directory is 3 blocks long, but disk quota reports 4 blocks used. The only thing missing is the file header of the directory file. It uses disk space, too. Jeeez, I sure hope this is the only answer like this. I sure wouldn't want to be part of a multiple contribution! Doug