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On 24 April 2013, at 11:16, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> Volume size so far fits my needs just fine, but that's because I've |
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>> never needed quotas as such. I find quotas too inflexible anyway, it's a |
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>> case of forcing a simplistic hardware rule into the human space and that |
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>> never really solves the problem properly. |
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> Sometimes a simplistic rule is what's needed. If you are selling off-site |
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> storage in 1GB chunks, you need to stop people using more than they have |
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> paid for. Hard quotas do this, soft quotas let you warn them first, |
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> before things get broken. |
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I'm unclear how this warning would be addressed. |
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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. |
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Stroller. |
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