CentOS - Oct 2008 - dumpe2fs and repquota not agreeing on block size

Hello:

I am trying to set up user quotas on my /var
partition to enforce limits on user's mailbox
sizes.  The machine is running CentOS 5.

When I do this:
/sbin/dumpe2fs /dev/md2 | grep 'Block size'
Block size:               4096

That tells me the block size is 4k.

But, if I do:
repquota /var

It is telling me that one of my users is
currently using 10264 blocks.  But, if I look
at their mail file, it is 10493792 bytes,
which means they should be using 2562 blocks
or so.

Also, if I do:
df /var

I get this
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/md2              39674140  20401792  17224468  55% /var

Which tells me the blocks are 1K in size.  The repquota
result makes much more sense with a 1K block size.

Any idea why dumpe2fs is giving a 4K block size?

Thanks,
	Neil

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On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 08:37:26PM -0500, Neil Aggarwal
wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I am trying to set up user quotas on my /var
> partition to enforce limits on user's mailbox
> sizes.  The machine is running CentOS 5.
> 
> When I do this:
> /sbin/dumpe2fs /dev/md2 | grep 'Block size'
> Block size:               4096
> 
> That tells me the block size is 4k.
the filesystem block size is basically the minimal used size
for any allocated object.
> 
> But, if I do:
> repquota /var
> 
> It is telling me that one of my users is
> currently using 10264 blocks.  But, if I look
> at their mail file, it is 10493792 bytes,
10493792/1024=10247 kilo bytes used
> which means they should be using 2562 blocks
> or so.
no, the quota are expressed in kB units, not
filesystem block unit.

...
> 
> Any idea why dumpe2fs is giving a 4K block size?
Because they don't serve the same purpose.

Tru
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Tru:
> no, the quota are expressed in kB units, not
> filesystem block unit.
Thanks for the information.  

I assumed that because the quota reports in blocks, that 
meant file system blocks.

I read the man pages to try to find some documentation
of the block size for quota but did not see anything
specific.

Is the block size always 1K or can it change?
If it can change, how do I find the current block size?

Thanks,
	Neil

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On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Neil Aggarwal <neil at
jammconsulting.com> wrote:
> Hello:
>
> Also, if I do:
> df /var
>
> I get this
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/md2              39674140  20401792  17224468  55% /var
>
> Which tells me the blocks are 1K in size.  The repquota
> result makes much more sense with a 1K block size.
>
No, this is just telling you how many 1k blocks are used, available,
etc.  It is a report on disk space usage, not file system allocation
units or their sizes.

The man pages are a good source of information in this regard....

mhr