Quick Start Guide
4 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.
5 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.
7 Conrm your settings with OK.
8 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 ex-
ceeding their quota. With quota_nld, administrators can also forward kernel messages
about exceeded quotas to D-BUS. For more information, refer to the repquota, the
warnquota and the quota_nld man page.
10.4 Changing Default Settings for Local Users
When creating new local users, several default settings are used by YaST. These in-
clude, for example, the primary group and the secondary groups the user belongs
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