[X-Unix] Setting disk quotas

[Eric F Crist]

On Jan 3, 2009, at 9:36 PM, Eric F Crist wrote:

> On Jan 3, 2009, at 5:18 PM, Charles Howse wrote:
>
>> HI,
>> I need to set a disk quota for my daughter.
>> I've read man edquota and quotaon/off
>> When I su to root and enter: edquota -u randi
>> nothing happens.  I was expecting vi to open a temp file and let me  
>> edit the soft limit.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>
> I have a few questions for you.
>
> 1) have you enabled quotas for the root file system?
> 2) do the mount option files (as mentioned in man quotaon) exist?  
> (you may need to create)
> 3) Is this method of quotas actually supported on OS X with HFS+?
>
> The third question is important, as there have been other FreeBSD  
> utilities that have made it into OS X that aren't supported by a  
> vanilla install.  There may be another method of setting up quotas  
> on OS X.  I'll try to look into this myself a bit and get back to  
> you, probably tomorrow.


OK, I've found a complete solution, which I will write up for you  
tomorrow.  It's marginally involved, so let me do my homework before I  
send you down a seldom-beaten path.

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Eric Crist