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This is an ancient post with no relevance to modern systems.
No filesystem in OSR5, SCO Unix, ODT, or Xenix supports hard quotas.
For another approach, look around ftp://ftp.armory.com/pub/admin/ where you will find, among other things, shell scripts to check users' disk space usage and notify users and administrators when users are using more space than you'd like them to.
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