Hi,

I am runing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6 for 64-bit x86_64).

I recently activated user quota limits (soft and hard limits).
Users now complain that the console gets filled with warning messages when the soft or the hard limit are reached.
Warning message for soft limit: dm-2: warning, user block quota exceeded.
Warning message for hard limit: dm-2: write failed, user block limit reached.

Is there a way to either disable this messages or redirect them to a file? I had a look at syslog (http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l...l5_syslogc.htm), but I do not know what "facility" is issuing these messages and what their "priority" is.

Thanks for any help! By the way, I am a newbie in linux...

In the root directory of the partition there should be a file called quota.user, this file should be owned by root.

The messages on the screen can be stopped by editing this file using the edquota command

to turn quotas off use:
Here is a link to a web page that explains it all with instructions
http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/Lin...ialQuotas.html
These messages are being recieved because the users have exceeded their quotas, the second message says that the hard limit (maximum allowed) has been reached and the system cannot write to the file.

Hi,

thanks for your suggestions. I purposely turned disk quota on, and I want to monitor and limit the amount of disk space a user can use, but I would like to get rid of these warning messages in the console.
With edquota, I can change the hard and soft limits, but not whether warning messages are being displayed or not.

So is there a way to have disk quota turned on but without warning messages (or to redirect these messages to a file)?

Thanks a lot.

I'm not aware of a way to have quotas enabled without displaying warning messages as it would not be good if a user was under the impression that files were being saved when they aren't. If what you want is the amount of disk space each user is using and then manually enforce (i.e. talk to them) the limits the you can set the disk quota limits rediculously high and use repquota to generate a report or you can use the following command
see this thread for details: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...system-213853/