Currently when a Windows user exceeds their home directory user disk quota a Windows message is sent out that says, "Error Copying File or Folder\nThere is not enough free disk space". That is starting to cause many users to call our Help Desk telling us we are out of space when in fact we have all sorts of space, we just don't want them using it (I believe a 10GB home directory limit is more than fair). Before we quota the other 14,000 users it would be nice if we could customize that message (netsend message?) to say something like, "You have exceeded your 10GB quota, please delete your mp3's and wedding pictures to free up space". If we could do this for the soft_disk quota/threshold that would be helpful as well. We have DFM but I think that can only email and can't send a message to a persons Windows ID...of course I'm not going to link 16,000 email address with their Windows ID's.
On a related topic that was recently touched upon in toasters...what is the difference between a threshold and a soft_disk quota? Neither send a netsend windows message, neither restrict the write, and both put a message in the messages file regardless of which is higher than the other. The description in the NetApp Manual is below and it sounds like 2 ways of saying the exact same thing.
threshold (optional) is the disk space usage point at which warnings of approaching quota limits are issued. soft_disk (optional) is a soft quota space limit that, if exceeded, issues warnings rather than rejecting space requests.
Thanks, Jeff
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