On 24 April 2013, at 11:16, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> ... >> Volume size so far fits my needs just fine, but that's because I've >> never needed quotas as such. I find quotas too inflexible anyway, it's a >> case of forcing a simplistic hardware rule into the human space and that >> never really solves the problem properly. > > Sometimes a simplistic rule is what's needed. If you are selling off-site > storage in 1GB chunks, you need to stop people using more than they have > paid for. Hard quotas do this, soft quotas let you warn them first, > before things get broken.
I'm unclear how this warning would be addressed. Your system must be more complex than I'm imagining, because I see this obvious answer of a bash script which loops through /home/*, runs `du` or `df` and sends an email to anyone who's consuming more than 90%. Obviously this needs to be adapted to circumstance. Stroller.
