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On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:38:42 +0100, Stroller wrote: |
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> > Sometimes a simplistic rule is what's needed. If you are selling |
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> > off-site storage in 1GB chunks, you need to stop people using more |
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> > than they have paid for. Hard quotas do this, soft quotas let you |
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> > warn them first, 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 |
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> obvious answer of a bash script which loops through /home/*, runs `du` |
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> or `df` and sends an email to anyone who's consuming more than 90%. |
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> Obviously this needs to be adapted to circumstance. |
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The warnquota command, from sys-fs/quota, does this for all user and all |
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filesystems with a single command called from cron. Yes, you could |
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reinvent the wheel with a shell script, but the wheel already exists for |
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filesystems other than ZFS. There's also the grace time element, which |
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allows you to go over quota for a short period, allowing you, for |
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example, to delete some old backups before the system fails on the new |
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one. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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WITLAG: The delay between delivery and comprehension of a joke. |
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