How to fix Unable to Delete Files due to “disk quota exceeded” Error

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Issue

When mounted drive was full of data and/or hit the maximum disk quota, It's not able to delete or modify any files

root@239:~> rm -rf testfile1 
rm: cannot remove regular file `testfile1': Disk quota exceeded

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.X
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.X
  • NFS

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