[Users] quota exceeded when migrating

Stanichenko Marat mstanichenko at openvz.org
Wed Dec 10 08:31:17 EST 2008


Aleksandar Ivanisevic wrote on 10.12.2008 11:51:
> Hi,
>
> Might be a SNAFU, but here it is anyway. Yesterday I've tried
> migrating (non-live) a VE with 90% disk full and the migration broke
> with rsync failing with "quota exceeded" in the 2nd pass while migrating
> a file that is itself larger than the remaining disk space. 
>
> My guess is that during sync rsync syncs to a temp file and VE ends up
> having to store more than the quota.
>
> Just to let you know, don't know if anything needs to be done about
> that, maybe put a warning so that inexperienced user is not confused.
>
> Regards.
>
>
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Hello,

are you sure that your quota is not in inconsistency state?
It could be tainted if you write something manually when VE is stopped.
Is it possible to reinitialize quota? Just stop your VE,
then "vzquota drop $VEID", then
start it again.


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