Re: Disk Quota question

[Stephen Patterson <steve@patter.mine.nu>]

RituRaj <ritu_turu@yahoo.com> writes:

> Hi all;
>
> I want to enable quotas on /home. 
>
> Can we specify only the soft limit and leave hard
> limit as 0(unlimited?) with a grace period of n days?.
> The requirement is that users should get a warning but
> they should be able to run their jobs(create new
> files).

I don't know about setting it to zero, but you could set the hard-limit
to the disc size. Though if you're doing this then there really isn't a
point to using quotas.

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