[X-Unix] Setting disk quotas

[John Baltutis]

On 1/5/09,  Charles Howse <chowse at charter.net> wrote:
> On Jan 3, 2009, at 9:48 PM, Eric F Crist wrote:
>> On Jan 3, 2009, at 9:36 PM, Eric F Crist wrote:
>>> On Jan 3, 2009, at 5:18 PM, Charles Howse wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>
> Hi Eric,
> Thank you so much for the offer to help.  However, in the time since I
> wrote, I have solved the issue.  It's working as expected, the only
> thing I need to do is configure the grace period.

Mind posting the solution, including configuring the grace period, for the rest
of us?