Why disk quota keeps growing and 'du' command shows very little disk usage

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • The user's quota keeps growing and growing but home directory size using commands like du show very little disk usage.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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