[Nottingham] limiting a user's quota

Robert Hart enxrah at nottingham.ac.uk
Mon Feb 9 23:05:36 GMT 2004


On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 21:24, Graeme Fowler wrote:

> ...and that way you physically size the "partition" so that it's not
> actually possible, quotas or not, to exceed the filesystem size.

Although this is a PITA, the advantage with real quotas is that you can
set soft-limits that allow the user some grace if they only exceed the
limit for a short period of time.

Rob

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