Re: [cobalt-users] User disk space full on a Raq2 ?!?

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Eric Lewis wrote:

> I recieved the following message from the admin of my server (Raq2)
> 
> *username* is using 85.5% of the disk space allocated on the Cobalt server.
> Users are only allowed to keep a certain amount of data in their account on
> the server; once that quota is filled, no more data can be stored.
> 
> Now, this user is the only user for this domain, and there is 10mg allocated
> for the user, and 30mg allocated for the virtual site itself.
> I ftp'd into the server as admin and navigated over to the site, and looked
> in the users/username/ folder and there are just the normal files there, a
> folder named web, and the index.html file created by the GUI.
> 
> So, if this user has only one file in his folder, and it is an html file,
> how can the user being using up 8.5mg of disk space?
> 
> I've increased the allowable space to 15mg, to get rid of the warning, but
> I'd like to know if anyone has ever seen this kind of situation before?
> Exactly what does the server consider to be part of the user disk space?
> Only that which is under their folder I would assume.

Probably log files if he is site admin, or lame virus emails...

from telnet this will show you all
the files 'owned' by that user

ls -lR /home |grep " user "

where user is his username, you need the spaces....



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