[Users] error using vi in VE but no beans?

[Steve Hodges]

On 27/08/2007 9:16 AM, Gregor Mosheh wrote:
> Steve Hodges wrote:
>> E297: Write error in swap file
>> E303: Unable to open swap file for "rc.local", recovery impossible
>> "rc.local" 17 lines, 387 characters
>
> That's vi saying that it can't save a backup of the file (yeah, "swap 
> file" really intuitive) That's probably just a permissions issue. Are 
> you able to manually create and then delete a fake swap file named 
> .rc.local.swp ?
>
It turned out to be a disk quota issue.

GOOD: the VE didn't chew up all the available disk space (as it would 
have in a couple of hours)
BAD: the violation of the disk quota doesn't show up in user_beancounters

I discovered it when I tried to create a file using echo xxxxx > file

Steve