On May 13, 2011, at 3:45 PM, Wade Rossmann wrote: > The server is quite old and has a tenuous grasp on stability, we cannot have > the server/service go down so we are hesitant to perform software upgrades. > We've got new servers we're moving to that are based on Postfix/Dovecot, but > we're trying to 'gently encourage' users to reduce their disk usage > beforehand. The trouble is the quota reporting is telling them they are not > over quota at all.
I've had good luck with just using a script to do a `du` on each user's directory, and send them an email if they're over a certain limit. You can do it daily or weekly, and if it's a big problem you can even cc the user's boss to get some action out of them. -Tom !DSPAM:4dcdbbe232711632919665!
