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Subject: Re: Data writting over the quota chage inote time
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"Youza Youzovic" <youza@post.cz> writes:

> echo "s" >> test; stat test 
> File: "test"
> Size: 204800 Blocks: 408 IO Block: 
> 121234234 Regular File
> Device: 811h/2065d Inode: 6300 Links: 1 
> Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: (1010/test) Gid:(0/root)
> Access: Wed Aug 13 16:10:21 2003
> Modify: Wed Aug 13 16:14:38 2003
> Change: Wed Aug 13 16:14:38 2003
>
> the size is not change - this is OK !!
> But Modify, and Change time is modified !!!

ctime is the inode change time; it has nothing to do with quotas.  In
your example above, you wrote some data to a file, which resulted in
some of the inode's fields being updated, which resulted in the inode
change time being updated.