Disk Quota full message?

So we have established there is only a hard limit on disk quotas, now a related question:

If I currently have disk quotas turned OFF and then turn them ON what happens to a user whose account is current disk usage ALREADY exceeds the limit I just imposed?

Are they denied log in?

Are they given a warning message as to why they can't log in?

Are they allowed to log in but encounter read/write errors?

Just what happens?

Also, has anyone come up with a soft quota arrangement so that we could (in some automated fashion) notify users when they are nearing their quota?

Thanks in advance.

If you deploy quota's to users who have already exceeded their limit they can log in but a lot of programs won't run, unexpectidly quit (microsoft office) web browsers fail due to the fact they can't write the cache and I have also found that on some occasions the users can't delete files either to clear up the mess as I can only assume that to move stuff to the trash requires a little bit of empty space.

All in all I have found quota's to be a pain. I have had to increase a users quota to allow them to get it back below the limit.

that said, I have no choice or I would need a couple of XSAN to store the replicated samples and music the students insist on copying. A soft limit with a warning would be much welcomed.

Hi. It seems that you've got disk quota's working. I'm trying to set them up through workgroup admin and I've been unsuccessful. I enabled the quota on the volume, rebooted, and then set the quota on the user. When I log into the server as the user and move files over to the quota volume, I get no error message and the files move right along. any suggestions?

Hi Joseph,

Did you resolve this problem as I am experiencing the same.
Actually had it working at one point but mysteriously someone or something turned off quotas on the volume and now it won't re-establish this function.

Thanks

Hi,
I just installed Tiger (10.4.2) and tried to setup disk quotas. But no luck ! In terminal, looks okay, but no limitation is applied to any user I try to create.
if someone knows about it.. thanks..

Using terminal commands, I was able to get it working correctly. I had a server that did this.

Check out the commands "quota" "quotacheck" and "setquota".

I did a setquota 200000 (I know this isn't how this command works, yet when I do it, it works).

After that, run quotacheck for all your volumes. I run it verbosely.

Then check a user's quota to see if the limit is there. Below are the commands I typed in:

At Terminal:

setquota 20000 <enter>

quotacheck -av <enter>

quota <user> <enter>

Remember, that you must either use the "sudo" command or be root to run these commands. After this, my quotas worked correctly.

If they open a Finder Window at the bottom, it will tell them how much remaining space exists in their network home folder. The only message I know of that they get is the one that says they have no more space.

Actually, I installed webmin. Tried to set quotas and it worked quite well.
Very simple to use for quotas, and a lots of usefull tools.
Thanks anyway.
www.webmin.com

Hello

I forgot to enable disk quotas on a volume in WGM>Sharing

Now when I try it I get a 'unable to save settings' message and it doesn't stick.
Users have active home directories on the volume in question and I have set the limit in Accounts>Home in WGM but this won't take until I enable quotas on the volume ...

anybody ? thanks