Quotas can be applied either to an entire volume, or to qtrees within that volume. If a user exceeds either of these, the write will be denied. If you want to allow users to write more data to a qtree that would exceed their quota for the volume, you'll need to use a different volume for the qtree. Or to change the existing user quota to one that applies to a qtree instead of the whole volume.

Of course, this also applies to group quotas.

Regards,

Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: Clawson, Simon [mailto:simon_clawson@mentorg.com]
Sent: 28 February 2001 09:44
To: 'Uros Lampret'; toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: RE: quota limits

Hi!

I had the same issue a fw weeks ago. The key factor is how you have set the users quota's up. There are several caragories of quota I believe. If you have given each user a quoa, with the quota type user then anything they write, any where on the filer will be subtracted from thier quota. This is how I understand it, but I may be wrong...

A way to get round this would be to give everyone a root account, but this is a bit dodgy as far as security goes...

Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: Uros Lampret [mailto:uros.lampret@ourspace.si]
Sent: Wednesday February 2001 06:51
To: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: quota limits

Hi!

My problem is that I have set up quotas for my users on F740 running Ontap 5.3.6r2.

They each have 200Mb. But four users that work on a special project have extra space of 2Gb. I've set up a qtree with limit of 2Gb. But when the four users start to write, they hit their personal limits.

Is there a work around?

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Uros Lampret
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