1. "userquota" should be set in the options of /etc/fstab for the filesystem where you want you want quotas enabled.



/dev/sd0a       /usr/local      ffs     rw,userquota                1 1



2. Make sure your quota-enabled filesystem is mounted


3. Run /etc/rc.d/quota start to generate an automatic "quotacheck -a" command


4. "edquota -f FILESYSTEM USER" will open up vi and have you fill out the quota file



Quotas for user qtest:
/usr/local: blocks in use: 0, limits (soft = 20, hard = 10)
        inodes in use: 0, limits (soft = 100, hard = 150)



5. "quotaon -a" to turn quotas on for every filesystem with the userquota option


6. Finally, try running repquota -a to see a report of all the quotas and test it out! Here's my attempting to exceed my quota of 100K



Error: bar: Disc quota exceeded; bar: WARNING: FILE TRUNCATED.

Caveats

I found a few issues with quotas-

• The userquota options and the log options are mutually exclusive, so WAPBL and quotas don't work together. (I think there is a plan to fix this)


• After really using quotas, I was unable to umount my fs but fstat didn't show anything using it

quota(1) - check your own quota
repquota(8) - check everyone's quota
quotaon(8) - enable quotas
edquota(8) - edit the quota file
quotacheck(8) - see if a user is exceeding his quota