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5. Filesystem quotas
  


Understanding edquota page 10 of 18


The soft limit is the maximum amount of disk usage that jane has allocated to her on the filesystem (in other words, her quota). If jane uses more disk space than is allocated in her soft limit, she will be issued warnings about her quota violation via e-mail. The hard limit indicates the absolute limit on disk usage, which a user can't exceed. If jane tries to use more disk space than is specified in the hard limit, she will get a "Disk quota exceeded" error and will not be able to complete the operation.


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