On 09/05/97 01:40:58 you wrote:

Given these parameters:

• I would like to use quotas to track user disk space usage (but not limit it)

Easily done, but there are some caveats.

• Quotas trees are not usable because you can't mv files from one quota tree to another (according to the docs).

The docs are slightly misleading here... sure, you can mv files from one to another, but they get copied, not moved. This should not generally be a problem (it's just like a separate mount point).

• I only want to track usage in /home/* only, not the entire disk (since there are other areas on the filesystem that users use, but I do not want included in the quota report.

This can be done with the new 4.1 software.

Is this possible or are the docs wrong about #2 ?

Take a look at the na_quota(1) man page and they provide just such an example of restricting user quotas per export. However, there are some caveats:

1. You have to create the quota tree first... if you already have a /home and directories in it, you can't "convert" them into a quota tree. You have to start with a new directory from scratch, crated via the "quota qtree newhome" or something similar.

2. Some clients can't deal with quotas great thatn 8GB, and there is currently no option on the filer to limit this (this is filed as a bug), so you'd have to restrict your users to 8GB. If you have any over that, you don't want them in the quota system.

So, you'd want something like:

# Quota Target type disk files # ------------- ----- ---- ----- /newhome tree * user@newhome 8G

The first line might not even be necessary, but it's worth including just for reference. Hmm, unless it breaks the clients the same way. Maybe the 8G can be omitted from the user entry as well? I don't know, I haven't tried it. The line might also be ncessary for the file to be parsed properly.

What Netapp really needs to do is a default quota report by uid/gid type of command on the filer, to avoid the need to set up quotas to track usage.

Bruce