Understanding filesystem quotas

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Fri, 14 Nov 2014, Chris Szilagyi wrote:

>> 3) have read dovecot logs, if there are errors, and
>
> Quite a while after testing and posting this, these errors started showing
> up in /var/log/maillog ... I'm currently investigating.  This may be part of
> the issue.
>
> dovecot: imap(username): Error: quotactl(Q_GETQUOTA, /dev/sdb1) failed:
> Permission denied

This is the reason, you do not get any "current" information about the 
quota

Do you have SELinux in action?
Run "sestatus" and "grep -i AVC /var/log/audit/audit.log" to identify 
SELinux caused denials,

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Steffen Kaiser
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