Steve Losen penned:
I can see one DISadvantage of soft quotas. [Every concievable way to get around quotas deleted.]
Every issue you raise is completely correct. Since I administer several community access sites, I have the luxury of being a disk fascist when the two week grace period expires. I get to delete files in descending order of size until the account is below its quota. I can't delete saved email though, so a report is generated for the helpdesk of whose disk use is frozen due to excessive saved email. This works beautifully for sites with soft quotas, but does not work on our newest site which uses a NetApp for home directories. I'm living with it, but it definitely is one thing I would like to see (along with ssh access) in a future OS.
Regards,
David K. Drum david@more.net