vxfs: mesg 040: vx_bsdquotaupdate - /users file system user 4757 disk limit reached

[Jani Kuituniemi]

Hey,

I was wondering, why is it, that I get the error message in topic even though the user is fresly created and has empty homedirectory?

//Jani

[Dan Hetzel]

Hi Jani,

Is is possible that your newly created user is sharing his userid with someone else on your system?
It looks like that user (or userid) has reached his quota limit.

Best regards,

Dan

[Cheryl Griffin]

The message is stating that a disk limit was reached. Maybe the limit is set to low, or potentially there is filesystem corruption.

Have you tried running fsck to see if that resolves the errors?

Hidden or sparse files? Could there be something hidden under the mount point which is taking up space that you do not see?

[Steffi Jones_1]

Hello,

There is a hard limit on blocks that you might run into at this point. If you try to allocate
blocks for more files by this user it will fail. You might want to consider to remove some files to free up some space

Steffi Jones

[Jani Kuituniemi]

No, the UID is unique and the quota linmit cannot be full, I just created the account, 'du' says 20 blocks in use and quota is set to 7000 blocks (soft), and 8000 (hard)

//Jani

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Hi,

One possibility is that a process is still bind to a file that was removed from the home directory.

In this case, bdf would show different results from du. The space is not freed because the process is still binding to it.

To confirm, try using lsof|grep '/users' to check for any process-opened but removed files.

To resolve, you will need to terminate the process.

Hope this helps.

Steven Sim
Brainbench MVP for Unix Admin
http://www.brainbench.com