"Erik" == Erik Huelsmann ehuels@gmail.com writes:
Erik> Ok. That's probably not too practical indeed. I've contacted Erik> some of the biggest users. Cleaning out some of the old Erik> cruft from their home directories made /home go down to a Erik> usage of 60%. With that percentage, I know our scaling Erik> doesn't need adapting. I'm considering how to deal with the Erik> situation for the future. On one hand I think installing a Erik> quota of 200MB on the /home directory of each user Erik> separately sounds sane and not too restrictive. Otoh, maybe Erik> with some monitoring, we can resolve the situation in a less Erik> strict way: after all, there's the request at sign-up to use Erik> the resources of cl.net
As one of the offenders (who has corrected his ways!), perhaps a gentle email reminder sent out one a month or so for people who have exceeded some soft quota would be sufficient?
I know a main reason for my excessive usage was that I forgot that I had left some experimental tarballs and such around. They were supposed to be temporary for someone to try them out for me. I just plain forgot about them, so an email reminder would have let me know.
Ray