quota problem

[Simon Matter]

> We're running Cyrus IMAPD 2.3.9 on RedHat Enterprise Server 5 (kernel
> 2.6.18-8.1.10), on an HP ProLiant DL385 G2, a four-core 64-bit machine.

I had some quota problems several times on different systems but I have
never been able to really found out where it came from. At least once
there was a problem with a certain cyrus version which left some quota
corrupt. But that has been corrected long ago. IIRC there was a problem
that I couldn't reconstruct first because it took too much time on almost
1TB mailspool but running quota -f didn't even fix quota and I had to
remove the quota files temporarily so people could receive mail.

I really don't recall exactly but what you tell me is not new...

Simon

>   Yesterday, I restored a deleted mailbox, and that seems to have
> corrupted the disk usage information for about 70 of our users (out of
> about 730), so that they appeared to be using much more disk space than
> they actually were, putting them over quota.
>
> Here's the basic process I use (as our cyrus user) to restore mailboxes:
>
>    create(user/mailbox_name, partition)
>    cd mailbox_dir
>    tar -zxpf gzipped_mailbox_tarball
>    reconstruct -r -f user/mailbox_name
>    set_acl(user/mailbox_name, mailbox_name, lrswipcda)
>    quota -f
>
> Am I doing something wrong here that might have triggered the quota
> problem?
>
> Also, I noticed in the man page for quota these two seemingly
> contradictory sentences:
>
> "If any optional mailbox-prefix arguments are given, the quota listing
> (and inconsistency fixing) is limited to quota roots with names that
> start with one of the given prefixes."
>
> "Running quota with both the -f option and mailbox-prefix arguments is
> not recommended."
>
> So, you _can_ run "quota -f mailbox", but you shouldn't???
>
> Karl Boyken
>
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