Viewing Email Account (Email User) Disk Quotas and Usage

[crazyaboutlinux]

The symptom is due to the "over quota" status being cached. For reference, this information is stored in the following directory path:

/var/cpanel/overquota/

Here is a command that could be used to view the information stored in the above directory:

# grep -HnR '' /var/cpanel/overquota | sort

is there any command to get a list of email users over quota for any particular domains

 

[cPanelDon]

is there any command to get a list of email users over quota for any particular domains

The issue discussed in this thread involves cPanel accounts (system users) being over quota, that of file system quotas, and not e-mail account users.

I recommend using cPanel for managing e-mail accounts and viewing disk usage. If you need to view the e-mail user quota and usage information via command-line, SSH, or FTP, you may view the (automatically generated) YAML file at the following path within the applicable user's home directory:

~/.cpanel/email_accounts.yaml

Here is a command you may use via SSH to view the aforementioned YAML file, where "username" should be replaced by the applicable cPanel account username:

# cat ~username/.cpanel/email_accounts.yaml

Here's an example of what the file contents may look like where one e-mail account, [email protected], has an unlimited quota while the other e-mail account, [email protected], has a defined quota of ~2048 MB:

# cat ~username/.cpanel/email_accounts.yaml
--- 
domain.tld: 
  accounts: 
    abuser: 
      diskquota: '0'
      diskused: 4170
      mtime: '1281732235'
    user: 
      diskquota: '2147483647'
      diskused: 9798
      mtime: '1281732205'
  disk_mtime: '1272426349'
  mtime: '1281732235'
  quota_mtime: '1281732235'

If needing to modify e-mail account disk quotas please do so via cPanel to ensure all pertinent files are properly updated:

• cPanel: Main >> Mail >> Email Accounts

 

[crazyaboutlinux]

The issue discussed in this thread involves cPanel accounts (system users) being over quota, that of file system quotas, and not e-mail account users.

I recommend using cPanel for managing e-mail accounts and viewing disk usage. If you need to view the e-mail user quota and usage information via command-line, SSH, or FTP, you may view the (automatically generated) YAML file at the following path within the applicable user's home directory:

~/.cpanel/email_accounts.yaml

Here is a command you may use via SSH to view the aforementioned YAML file, where "username" should be replaced by the applicable cPanel account username:

# cat ~username/.cpanel/email_accounts.yaml

Here's an example of what the file contents may look like where one e-mail account, [email protected], has an unlimited quota while the other e-mail account, [email protected], has a defined quota of ~2048 MB:

# cat ~username/.cpanel/email_accounts.yaml
--- 
domain.tld: 
  accounts: 
    abuser: 
      diskquota: '0'
      diskused: 4170
      mtime: '1281732235'
    user: 
      diskquota: '2147483647'
      diskused: 9798
      mtime: '1281732205'
  disk_mtime: '1272426349'
  mtime: '1281732235'
  quota_mtime: '1281732235'

If needing to modify e-mail account disk quotas please do so via cPanel to ensure all pertinent files are properly updated:

• cPanel: Main >> Mail >> Email Accounts

It seems odd can i show result in human-readable format see example below

[email protected] [~]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             1.5G  769M  608M  56% /
/dev/sda7             116G   53G   58G  48% /home
/dev/sda6             494M   44M  426M  10% /tmp
/dev/sda3             9.5G  5.1G  4.0G  57% /usr
/dev/sda2              16G  9.5G  5.0G  66% /var

 

[cPanelDon]

It seems odd can i show result in human-readable format see example below

[email protected] [~]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             1.5G  769M  608M  56% /
/dev/sda7             116G   53G   58G  48% /home
/dev/sda6             494M   44M  426M  10% /tmp
/dev/sda3             9.5G  5.1G  4.0G  57% /usr
/dev/sda2              16G  9.5G  5.0G  66% /var

The sizes shown by "diskquota" and "diskused" are in bytes (B); you may easily convert between kilobytes (KB), megabytes (MB), and gigabytes (GB), by using a calculator to divide or multiply by 1024.

 

[cPanelDon]

Friendly Moderator Note

This topic, discussing e-mail account disk quotas, has been separated into a new thread to prevent confusion with the original discussion.