Delete quota entry when deleting user

weotch · 01-10-2005, 12:10 PM

I've noticed that when I use userdel to remove users, they aren't removed from the quota table when I run repquota. Instead, their name is replaced by their UID (I think) such as "#10020." If I recreate a user with the same name as the one I deleted, he assumes those old quota settings. I'm looking for a way to remove a user's quota's, something equivalent to setquota hopefully. Thank you!

aasami · 06-20-2012, 07:37 AM

Have you found a sollution for this issue? I'm fighting with this too.

robrinker · 10-25-2012, 01:53 PM

I realize this thread and reply are dated, but since the solution wasn't posted, I thought I would add it for future readers:

You end up with #<UID> entries when you delete a user but the UID still owns files on the filesystem where quota is enabled. Run a find for the offending UID in the filesystem that you are seeing this entry for and either remove the files, or chown them to an existing user.

i.e.

find /home -user 10200

Once you do that, the entries will automatically be removed from your repquota output.

Reuti · 10-25-2012, 02:47 PM

Welcome and thanks for sharing. I was looking for a solution to this for some time too. Unfortunately removing all files of the user doesn’t seem to work for me:

Code:

# repquota -av
*** Report for user quotas on device /dev/sda6
Block grace time: 7days; Inode grace time: 7days
                        Block limits                File limits
User            used    soft    hard  grace    used  soft  hard  grace
----------------------------------------------------------------------
...       
#15151    --       0   10000   10000              0 10000 10000

And a find for this userid doesn’t return anything. Must anything be done in addition?

My usual procedure is to create a dummy account, remove the quota entry and the just created user too.

chrism01 · 10-25-2012, 08:03 PM

How about http://linux.die.net/man/8/edquota ?

Reuti · 10-26-2012, 08:38 AM

Well, now I got it working – being it edquota or setquota.

I struggled in the past what argument to specify for the user, hence I tried "#15151" including the quotation marks which throws an error – giving only the number does it though.

Maybe it wasn’t mentioned in the man page before, or I checked only the explanation of the -u option (where it’s still not mentioned). I don’t recall.

Thx - Sometimes it’s good to review old habits.