Is there *any* way (and I'm open to any suggestions) to get around the inability of 'quota resize' to handle additions/deletions from the /etc/quotas file ?
Here's something that *should* work, but I haven't actually tried it.
(1) Create a default quota on the FS in question.
(2) Create a home directory for your new user -- jsmith. (There should now be a default quota for jsmith.)
(3) Add a new entry in /etc/quotas for jsmith.
(4) Run 'quota resize'.
The reason this should work is that quota resize does not rescan the filesystem to build new quotas from scratch, but it should hijack (and update) an existing quota, whether that quota came from a default or from a specific user quota.
Note that you must create jsmith's directory before you add jsmith to /etc/quotas and run 'quota resize'. Otherwise, there won't already be a default-created entry for jsmith, and quota resize won't find any existing quota to attach the new jsmith quota to.
If this doesn't work, then tell them I said it was a bug...
- kidnap Dave Hitz (presuming he's still there) and have him add the
feature at gunpoint.
Dave who? I haven't seen anyone around who looks like he needs kidnapping...
Dave