Quota Issue - New To List

[Patrick Radtke]

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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