Soft limits
set limits that you don't want a user or group to exceed.
It is possible to exceed these limits.
You can set a grace period for exceeding a soft limit.
Once that limit is exceeded, then the limit becomes
a hard limit.
Type the following to check and change the grace
periods:
#
edquota -t
Grace period before
enforcing soft limits for users: Time units may be: days, hours,
minutes, or seconds
Filesystem Block grace period
Inode grace period
/dev/hda7 7days
7days
Hard limits
will not allow users to exceed their quota.
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