Quota Issue - New To List

Kurt Laurinaitis kli4561 at saintjoe.edu
Thu Jul 21 16:02:36 EDT 2005


Did not know cyradm could do that, thank you very much :-D

Patrick Radtke wrote:

> It's not clear to me if you've tried setting a quota using cyradm.
>
> Once you use that to set the quota, then the quota folder will appear.
>
> It will contain a file like 'user.username' (e.g. user.phr2101)
> with info on that user's quota.
>
> -Patrick
>
> On Jul 21, 2005, at 2:35 PM, Kurt Laurinaitis wrote:
>
>> Hello all..
>>
>> Got Cyrus up and running but don't want people to abuse my space on  
>> my system, so I would like to setup a quota.  I looked into the  docs 
>> and it mentioned a folver in /var/imap but I have no quota  folder, 
>> here is the step because my partition is ext2
>>
>> *LINUX SYSTEMS USING EXT2FS ONLY*: Set the user, quota, and  
>> partition directories to update synchronously. Failure to do this  
>> may lead to data corruption and/or loss of mail after a system  
>> crash. Unfortunately, doing so may result in a serious performance  
>> hit. If you are using a newer filesystem than ext2fs on Linux, this  
>> step should not be necessary. (Running ext3 in any mode is safe.)
>>
>>   cd /var/imap
>>   chattr +S user quota user/* quota/*
>>
>> I only have the user folder so I am not sure if I just create the  
>> folder or where I would begin to setup a quota...can someone point  
>> me in the right direction?
>>
>> Kurt
>>
>>   chattr +S /var/spool/imap /var/spool/imap/*
>>
>>
>>
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