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"find" failed to find the files reported by "quot"

newa — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 03:00:46 GMT

Hi

On a rp3440/HP-UX11iV2 server "quot" reported that on the root volumne "/" (/dev/vg00/lvol3) there were 3 files owned by jwolf as follows:

# quot -f /
/dev/vg00/rlvol3 (/):
848968 3 jwolf <<=== this line
299169 1369 bin
9109 1203 root
8 8 lp
1 1 uucp
#

But when I used "find" as the following:

# find / -user jwolf

All the files returned by command above were all in the /home/jwolf directory which is on a different logic volumne (/dev/vg00/lvol4) - no files owned by jwolf were on the root volumne (/dev/vg00/lvol3)

How can I find/remove those 3 files reported by "quot" and owned by jwolf on /dev/vg00/lvol3?

Thanks a lot in advance.

Re: "find" failed to find the files reported by "quot"

P Muralidhar Kini — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 04:11:44 GMT

Hi newa,

>> which is on a different logic volumne (/dev/vg00/lvol4)
>>- no files owned by jwolf were on the root volumne (/dev/vg00/lvol3)
Looks like the output of #quot command was referring to the files on the
"/dev/vg00/lvol4" volume.

what about the space consumption of the files owned by jwolf on
/dev/vg00/lvol4, is it 848968 (reported by quot)?

For more information on the QUOT command, refer -
http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90692/quot.1M.html

Regards,
Murali

Re: "find" failed to find the files reported by "quot"

James R. Ferguson — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 11:14:07 GMT

Hi:

> But when I used "find" as the following:
# find / -user jwolf
All the files returned by command above were all in the /home/jwolf directory which is on a different logic volumne (/dev/vg00/lvol4) - no files owned by jwolf were on the root volumne (/dev/vg00/lvol3)

If you don't want 'find()' to cross mountpoints you need to add '-xdev'. This is particularly important if you want to search the '/' directory as you have seen. Use:

# find / -xdev -user jwolf

If you want only files and not directories too, do:

# find / -xdev -type f -user jwolf

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: "find" failed to find the files reported by "quot"

Aneesh Mohan — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 12:08:02 GMT

How can I find/remove those 3 files reported by "quot" and owned by jwolf on /dev/vg00/lvol3?

Most probably those files got removed already ( which was in lvol3) from lvol3,inode allocation/deallocation may take a few moments.....

If you do #sync it may reflect in the next quot.

If your getting still ....please post

# quot -f /jwolf
# find / -xdev -user

Aneesh

Re: "find" failed to find the files reported by "quot"

Aneesh Mohan — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 12:08:54 GMT

wrong typo in above post

# quot -f /
# find / -xdev -user jwolf

Aneesh

Re: "find" failed to find the files reported by "quot"

James R. Ferguson — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 13:37:02 GMT

Hi (again):

> How can I find/remove those 3 files reported by "quot" and owned by jwolf on /dev/vg00/lvol3?

To see the matches:

# find / -xdev -type f -user jwolf -exec ls -l {} +

To remove the matches:

# find / -xdev -type f -user jwolf -exec rm {} +

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: "find" failed to find the files reported by "quot"

newa — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:18:29 GMT

Thank you all for the suggestions.

The problem is "quot" sees 3 files owned by jwolf but "find" could not find those 3 files. And "bdf" reported the filesystem is full. See below please.

Thanks.

###########################################

# quot -f /
/dev/vg00/rlvol3 (/):
848968 3 jwolf
299169 1369 bin
9216 1203 root
8 8 lp
1 1 uucp
# find / -xdev -user jwolf
#

# bdf
Filesystem kbytes used avail %used Mounted on
/dev/vg00/lvol3 1179648 1179648 0 100% /

Re: "find" failed to find the files reported by "quot"

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:25:20 GMT

Hi:

> The problem is "quot" sees 3 files owned by jwolf but "find" could not find those 3 files.

You are assuming that these are *files* where they could be *directories*. Compare:

# find / -xdev -type f -user jwolf

...with:

# find / -xdev -type d -user jwolf

...or simply:

# find / -xdev -user jwolf

> And "bdf" reported the filesystem is full.

So, then find out where the most space is consumed:

# du -xk / |sort -rnk1,1|more

Make sure that there are no regular files in '/dev' too. You might find objects like '/dev/rmt/om' [that's an "o" instead of a zero].

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: "find" failed to find the files reported by "quot"

chris huys_4 — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:49:01 GMT

Hi,

# umount /home

And do again the find.

Greetz,
Chris

Re: "find" failed to find the files reported by "quot"

newa — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 03:02:55 GMT

I found out those 3 "hiden" files were under /u01 directory when I boot the server into single user mode. At the default run level (3) /u01 became the mount point of a LUN presented to the server recently.

Thank you all