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openbsd:shell:quotas [2020/02/27 01:13] pirata [Defining limits] |
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| There are two types of quotas - soft and hard quotas. | There are two types of quotas - soft and hard quotas. | ||
| - | - **soft quotas** - allows further disk allocation but once threshold is reached, warns users and sets a grace period time so they can decrease their disk usage below limits. After the grace period is over, the soft limit is handled as a hard limit | + | - **soft quotas** - allows further disk allocation but, once threshold is reached, warns users and sets a grace period time so they can decrease their disk usage below limits. After the grace period is over, the soft limit is handled as a hard limit |
| - **hard quotas** - does not allow any more disk allocation once threshold is reached. | - **hard quotas** - does not allow any more disk allocation once threshold is reached. | ||
| - | Currently, IRCNow's shell limits disk usage to **5GB** (soft) and **10GB** (hard) per user and users have 1 week to decrease disk usage. | + | Currently, IRCNow's shell limits disk usage to **8GB** (soft) and **11GB** (hard) and users have 1 week to decrease disk usage. |
| ====== Setting up ====== | ====== Setting up ====== | ||
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| ====== Defining limits ====== | ====== Defining limits ====== | ||
| - | To set thresholds, We use edquota(8). Keep in mind that values are measured in KB (1MB equals to 1000KB). | + | To set thresholds, We use edquota(8). Keep in mind that values are measured in KB (1000KB equals to 1MB). |
| edquota(8) invokes vi(1) unless you specify other editor. | edquota(8) invokes vi(1) unless you specify other editor. | ||
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| <code bash> | <code bash> | ||
| - | $ edquota -p PiRATA jrmu jimmy_will dennis | + | $ edquota -p PiRATA jrmu jimmy_will dennis |
| </code> | </code> | ||
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| - | ====== Displaying limits ====== | + | ====== Displaying quota statistics ====== |
| quota(1) outputs current disk usage and limits. By default, only the user quotas are printed but you can see group quotas by invoking **-g** option. | quota(1) outputs current disk usage and limits. By default, only the user quotas are printed but you can see group quotas by invoking **-g** option. | ||