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Questions tagged [quota]

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Changing the maximum mail size in Postfix

When sending large email to a new CentOS6 server running Postfix as the MTA, the following message is returned: tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further…
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How can I check the remaining disk quota?

df does only reports the disk free space. How can I get my allowed free space?
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ZFS performance: do I need to keep free space in a pool or a file system?

I know that the performance of ZFS heavily depends on the amount of free space: Keep pool space under 80% utilization to maintain pool performance. Currently, pool performance can degrade when a pool is very full and file systems are updated…
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Linux - quota per directory?

I have following scenarios: Single partition mounted as /, with lots of disk space. There is a range of directories (/pg/tbs1, /pg/tbs2, /pg/tbs3 and so on), and I would like to limit total size of these directories. One option is to make some big…
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Understanding "quota" output

My host's backup server gives me my usage information in the following format: Disk quotas for user vps**** (uid 1234): Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace /dev/mapper/backup3-backup3 …
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How do you limit the use of network storage in your company?

I think this is one area that is a pain for every sysadmin. Users don't really know how much storage space they are using, and don't take the time to manage what is stored there, or how long it stays around. What policies does your company implement…
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Make /home /tmp noexec nodev without a separate patition

I need to change some mount options for parts of the root filesystem, such as /tmp /var and /home (add nodev,nosuid and quota), but I haven't ability to make a separate partition and I have not enough RAM to mount /tmp as tmpfs. I've tried mount -o…
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How to display quota limit on btrfs subvolume?

I cannot determine how to get the quota limit which is currently set on a btrfs subvolume. The btrfs wiki on quota doesn't seem to show this. This is what I think I know: set a quota: btrfs qgroup limit 21G /path check used space: btrfs qgroup show…
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View free space on offline mapped network drive

We provide all of our users with a mapped network drive (H:) which we have re-directed my documents to. Using FSRM on the file server, each user is restricted to 5GB of disk space. Windows automatically sets this up as an offline folder, and the…
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Dovecot QuotaClone plugin

I am trying to get the new QuotaClone plugin in Dovecot (2.2.18) working. The documentation says the configuration should be like this: mail_plugins = $mail_plugins quota quota_clone plugin { quota_clone_dict = redis:127.0.0.1:6379 } However, it…
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Quotas in vsftpd?

I tried to configure user disk quotas for vsftpd. I configured quotas for ftp virtual users using the "quota" package on debian (you know, by editing /etc/fstab and all that stuff). Internet told me that it's the only solution with vsftpd. The…
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Setup user/group quotas >4TiB on Ubuntu

I've run into the problem that my 5TB disk has a large proportion of content from one group of users, which is okay. I'd like to limit the total disk usage of that group to ~4.5TB, but I'm unable to, I get the following error: setquota: Cannot set…
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Email Attachment Size Limits

Given I have plenty of disk space to work with, what are some technical considerations that I need to consider when configuring email attachment size limits?
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Is it possible to set up a default user quota for users in a specific group in Linux?

I'd like to be able to set up a default user quota for members of a group if they don't have a specific user quota defined. The idea is that by default, they'd have this standard quota but if a specific entry for them was made in the aquota.user…
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Cant enable quotas on XFS file system

I'm trying to enable quotas on Centos 7 I ran yum install quota Edited fstab: /dev/mapper/centos-root / xfs defaults,usrquota,grpquota 0 0 UUID=6c443910-a7e9-4e97-8b51-de9d05407cf6 /boot xfs …
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