On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Aug 2000 08:51:27 MST, David Kirchner wrote:
>
> > I've been reading over source for quotacheck and ufs_quota.c and so far I
> > have not found a reason why running quotacheck on a live filesystem would
> > cause anything but inconsistencies in the quota.user file.
> > incorrect belief?
I gained the same belief in the same way when someone (Mike Tansca?) asked
about running quotacheck a year or two ago.
> That would certainly tie in with the last paragraph of the DESCRIPTION
> section of the quotacheck(8) manual page.
My version says it even more certainly :-):
diff -c2 quotacheck.8~ quotacheck.8
*** quotacheck.8~ Wed Aug 16 04:02:50 2000
--- quotacheck.8 Fri Mar 3 06:08:22 2000
***************
*** 138,143 ****
accesses the raw device in calculating the actual
disk usage for each user.
! Thus, the filesystems
! checked should be quiescent while
.Nm
is running.
--- 138,144 ----
accesses the raw device in calculating the actual
disk usage for each user.
! Thus, mounted filesystems can be checked,
! but the results may be garbage unless the
! filesystems are quiescent while
.Nm
is running.
I meant to commit this after checking the details.
Bruce
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