home directory quota for email user is incorrect

Virtualmin
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I was tracking some errors in the maillog and was alerted to the fact that email was being bounced because a particular mailbox had exceeded its available storage… hello whats happening here?

I checked the mailbox and it has 50mb allocated, and virtualmin was telling me that it was all used up. This is seriously not the case, I checked the size of the directory, spam and messages and all. I don’t know why the system is reporting an incorrect size.

How do I presumably go about correcting this?

Centos5, x64, virtualmin pro 3.61

Thanks Steven

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Howdy,

There may be files somewhere else on the file system owned by that user.

If you log in via SSH, you can type:

find / -user XXXX

where XXXX is his Virtualmin login.

Sometimes, there’s /tmp/clamav-* files that can take up some space.
-Eric

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Hey thanks!

got me thinking, there were some 0 byte files in the /tmp folder assigned to the user concerned. After removing these, the quotas read the correct figure.

Have a great day!