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Date:  Wed, 1 Mar 2006 08:18:26 +0800 (SGT)
From:  patricko (at mark) staff.singnet.com.sg
Subject:  [coba-e:04208] Oops - typo:  Should we set user account - hard quota to double?
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
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Blues any coments?


Double hard quota for not?
Give users for grace quota?





In case, you need the following for comment:

Hard Limit
The hard limit defines the absolute maximum amount of disk space that a 
user or group can use. Once this limit is reached, no further disk space 
can be used.

Soft Limit
The soft limit defines the maximum amount of disk space that can be used. 
However, unlike the hard limit, the soft limit can be exceeded for a 
certain amount of time. That time is known as the grace period.

Grace Period
The grace period is the time during which the soft limit may be exceeded. 
The grace period can be expressed in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, 
or months, giving the system administrator a great deal of freedom in 
determining how much time to give users to get their disk usage below 
their soft limit.


Cheers
patrick



On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, patricko wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Since another partition serving as non-quota temporary mail spool,
> a normal mailbox will be copied over to mail spool.
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> Therefore the actual quota needed will be more than actual quota.
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> Why?         
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> While the qpopper is serving - user popping mails, New mails will enter the mailboxes and 
> qpopper session will not be able to secure the required space in user quota to write back the remaining mails from the mail spool. 
> 
> 
> I am suggestion we set the linux hard quota x2 of actual quota.
> 
> eg: patricko's 1MB mailbox
> 
> Disk quotas for user patricko (uid 1604):
> Filesystem              blocks       soft       hard    inodes     soft     hard 
> /dev/sda8               26716        1025       2048         9        0        0
> 
> 
> I think by doing so, mail grossly overquota maildrop - lock issue will be lessen!?
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> Request for comment.
> Thanks
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> Cheers
> patrick
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