quotas and block size

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 03:53:06PM -0400, Neil Watson wrote:
> I have a Redhat AS3 system.  The / file system has a block size of
> 4096k:
> # tune2fs -l /dev/sda1|grep "Block size"
> Block size: 4096

Those are bytes.  No one would want a 4MB block size.

> I want to set a quota of 300MB.  I calculate that that is 75 blocks.  I
> set this using edquota:
> Disk quotas for user nhwatson (uid 502):
> Filesystem   blocks       soft       hard     inodes soft     hard
> /dev/sda1      36         60         75         10    0        0
> 
> This is a new system.  I cannot be using 148MB (4096k x 36).  However I
> am using 36k:
> # du -sh /home/nhwatson
> 36K /home/nhwatson
> 
> Are the blocks in quotas bytes of blocks?

block size is always in bytes.  You want 75000 blocks quota.

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