Am 24.04.2013 19:38, schrieb Stroller: > > 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. >
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.
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