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Date:      Fri, 06 Aug 1999 02:34:35 GMT
From:      mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa)
To:        shawn@cpl.net (Shawn Ramsey)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: quotas
Message-ID:  <37aa496d.139842232@mail.sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <MAIL19990805162512.B1105@cpl.net>
References:  <MAIL19990805162512.B1105@cpl.net>

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On 5 Aug 1999 20:19:21 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote:

>I am trying to get quotas working. I edited the quota for the user like so :
>
>edquota -u test
>
>That user looks like so :
>
>Quotas for user test:
>/disk4: blocks in use: 5117, limits (soft = 20000, hard = 5120)
>        inodes in use: 15, limits (soft = 0, hard = 0)
>
>
>It only lets the hard quota through... it will not let it go to 20000 until
>the grace period which I set for 7 days. Is there anything else I need to

You want the values reversed.  i.e. set the soft quota to a value smaller
than the hard quota.  i.e. the soft quota is what you want the user to keep
their disk utilization to.  The hard quota is what you will let them
temporarily go to, but not beyond.

	---Mike
Mike Tancsa  (mdtancsa@sentex.net)		
Sentex Communications Corp,   		
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
"Who is this 'BSD', and why should we free him?"


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