Disk Quota Exceeded - Don't know why

Virtualmin
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Today I noticed phpMyAdmin stopped working, which was due to Virtualmin thinking the Disk Quote for that domain had been exceeded. My quota is 1024 MB, the user directory in /home is only 76 MB, and the SQL database is only 28MB.

I don’t know why Virtualmin is reporting the quota is exceeded. Any ideas?

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Howdy,

Virtualmin is just reporting what the Linux disk quota tools are telling it… it’s possible that you may have some other files owned by that user elsewhere (perhaps in /tmp or /var/log, for example). Or the quotas may potentially have become out of sync.

But the first thing I’d try doing is to run these two commands:

quota -v USERNAME quota -g GROUPNAME

What is the output of the above, using the username and group name for the Virtual Server owner in question?

-Eric

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I have now changed the quota to unlimited, but it is still shows I have over 1GB usage and is increasing :confused:

Disk quotas for user andy (uid 500):
Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace
/dev/vda1 1049160 0 0 196125 0 0

Disk quotas for group andy (gid 500): none

I’ve also cleared /tmp and /var/tmp, no different.

4

Does that user perhaps have a large log file in /var/log/virtualmin?

-Eric

5

Nothing in there

6

Hi,

Could be a mailbox account that’s growing…

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I need to find this quickly because it’s up another 50MB today and eventually I’ll run out of physical disk space :confused:

  • The /home user folder is 76 MB
  • The MySQL database is 28 MB
  • There is no e-mail server, but even so this would have reflected in the /home/user folder
  • /tmp has been cleared
  • /var/tmp has been cleared
  • Largest file in /var/log was 22 MB
  • I have searched for files over 50 MB in size, only a few system files were found.
  • There are no PHP sessions active

I can only think there are lots and lots of little files rather than 1 large one.

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Hi,

For a small fee, I can diagnose and help you get this resolved over a screen sharing session (so you can learn how the issue was resolved).

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9

Thanks but I’ll find it myself :stuck_out_tongue:

I suspect it has something to do with cron

10

Solved

I went through every single file belonging to the user and found a considerable number of 4K files in
/var/spool/postfix/maildrop

They appear to have come from cron.

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Hi,

Glad you solved things.

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