[gpfsug-discuss] Quotas and non-existant users

Wahl, Edward ewahl at osc.edu
Tue Nov 25 13:52:55 GMT 2014


Do you still have policies or filesets associated with these users?

Ed Wahl
OSC


On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 10:45 +0000, Laurence Alexander Hurst wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We have noticed that once users are deleted (gone entirely from the passwd backend) and all their files removed, their uid is still reported by GPFS’ quota tools (albeit with zero files and space usage).
> 
> Does anyone know if there is a way to clear out these spurious entries or is it a case that once a uid is in the quota database its there forever regardless of if that uid is still in use and has quota to record?
> 
> Many Thanks,
> 
> Laurence
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