Operation Manual
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Below Size Limits, restrict the amount of disk space. Enter the number of 1 KB
blocks the user or group may have on this partition. Specify a Soft Limit and a
Hard Limit value.
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Additionally, you can restrict the number of inodes the user or group may have
on the partition. Below Inodes Limits, enter a Soft Limit and Hard Limit.
6
You can only dene grace intervals if the user or group has already exceeded
the soft limit specied for size or inodes. Otherwise, the time-related input elds
are not activated. Specify the time period for which the user or group is allowed
to exceed the limits set above.
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Conrm your settings with OK.
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Click Expert Options > Write Changes Now to save all changes without exiting
the User and Group Administration dialog. Click OK to close the administration
dialog and to save the changes.
openSUSE also ships command line tools like repquota or warnquota with which
system administrators can control the disk usage or send e-mail notications to users
exceeding their quota. With quota_nld, administrators can also forward kernel
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