User loses his folder

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From: Alan Phillips
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 14:47

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Just had one of our users start ELM 2.4.17 to prune old messages out of
a folder called 'mbox', when he was very close to his filestore quota limit.
What he got was this:


 Write failed to tempfile in copy
 mbox: Disc quota exceeded
       Couldn't modify folder

 Write failed to tempfile in copy
 /user/ps/psa008/emergency.mbox: Disc quota exceeded
       Couldn't copy mailbox, system trouble

 Emergency exit taken! All temp files intact.

And the mbox file ended up empty.

A couple of questions on this, then: what _are_ the temporary files that
are intact? I can't see anything in /tmp or the user's own area.

And has the user then totally lost what was in the folder in this case?
I'm wondering if this isn't perhaps a rather drastic thing to happen....

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From: alan@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Alan Phillips)
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Subject: User loses his folder
Message-ID: <1993Jan7.144737.19626@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Date: 7 Jan 93 14:47:37 GMT
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