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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!lazrus.cca.rockwell.com!cacd.rockwell.com!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.eas.asu.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!quanta.com!rsww From: rsww@quanta.com (Ross Walker) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Quota grace period bug/question Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.admin Date: 30 Jan 1996 19:24:48 GMT Organization: Quanta Communications, Inc. Lines: 26 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4elra0$ge@news.quanta.com> References: <4ejo69$ek@complete.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: quanta.quanta.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:13065 comp.unix.admin:37791 John Goerzen (jgoerzen@complete.org) wrote: : I've been trying to set grace periods for disk quotas. : I use edquota -t or edquota -t -g to set the grace period as decsribed in : the manpage. : However, the grace period remains at 7 days for user and 0 for groups, no : matter what I say. : Help please! : PS..I am using FreeBSD 2.1.0R I have noticed that grace periods work only when initially set up (before the quota file is created). You can stop quotas, remove the quota file, use edquota -t, then do a quotacheck and restart quotas again and then put your old quotas back in. Then the grace period will work, but it is a pain in the rear to put quotas back in if you have many different quotas. Cheers, Ross Walker