Since one user can affect others should/could VM just give a heads up to the admin and domain owner? Maybe just send a daily report on disk usage? I know I can set up a package with disk limits so I’m guessing the underlying software for VM could do this?
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I don’t think I know how it effects things. I’m surprised one database being out of space can affect others. I just know it’s come up a couple of times lately, but probably not this specific error.
But, it may be preferable to keep databases on a separate filesystem. /home for files, /var or / for databases, not subject to disk quotas, but maybe you use a Mariadb-specific quota tool, if database usage is a problem you need to track and manage.
But, also Virtualmin supports soft quotas already, which is “warnings” and “reports” instead of hard limits.
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Since the topic is about quotas, I want to mention that POP3 users have a problem if the mailbox hits its quota - all the messages begin to download again in the email client instead of just the new messages.
can you not have hard qutoas with a 10% allowance which would allow processes to finish safely and then functionality is restricted.
When we ran our own servers disk space was cheap so the former owner just did ‘unlimited’ on all accounts. If you rent a VPS now days it seems the storage is disproportionately expensive. 
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