[K12OSN] disk quota troubleshooting ?

[Brian Chivers]

I've setup webmin to email the users when they are at 80% of there quota.

Brian Chivers
Portsmouth College

Henry Burroughs wrote:
> Barry,
> 
> I am using the standard quota system on my k12ltsp server (enabled quota
> attributes for the partitions, etc)  and it stops the windows user's
> when they try to go over the hard limit.   Soft limit works as well.
> They don't get a nice error message saying they are over their quota,
> they just get a disk full or cannot save message.
> 
> Henry Burroughs
> Technology Director
> Hilton Head Preparatory School
> www.hhprep.org
> 
> 
> 
>>Message: 14
>>Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 08:18:24 -0600
>>From: "Barry R Cisna" <brcisna at frontiernet.net>
>>Subject: [K12OSN] disk quota troubleshooting ?
>>To: "K12OSN" <k12osn at redhat.com>
>>Message-ID: <001701c61915$63253bf0$01fea8c0 at brcHOST>
>>Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="iso-8859-1"
>>
>>Hello list,
>>
>>We are trying to setup.disk quotas, on each users,home folder now.
>>Iv'e done this in the past and worked great .through strictly Linux logins.
>>Now we have the Windows users& Linux users,saving to a common home folder.
>>The quota settings ,works fine in Linux but,logged in as a windows
>>user,users can go to an "unlimited" amount of file storage.
>>In other words, when a user adds files to their home folder( on a K12LTSP
>>server used as our file server),if they adding these files from a Windows
>>server login,/to home folder the quota's are not being "seen".
>>But when they log into Linux( and are over their disk quota), they get the
>>"You are over your disk space allotment,contact system admin".
>>How can I go about troubleshooting,this scenario? Is this maybe a Windows AD
>>setup,and Im clear off of base?.How does WIndows AD,,see the Linux disk
>>quota reqiirements?
>>questions,,,questions...:)..
>>
>>K12LTSP v 4.1.1 -FC3
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Barry Cisna
> 
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