On 24 April 2013, at 18:53, Michael Hampicke wrote: >> ... >> 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. > > That only works on small systems. I have systems here where a 'du' on > /home would take hours and produce massive IO wait, because there's so > much data in there.
Of course. Excuse me. My original idea was in respect of the previous respondent's desire to offer hard limits of a gigabyte - allocating each user a partition and running `du`, which returns immediately, on it. I don't understand how a hard limit could be enforced if it's impractical to assess the size of used data. Stroller.
