NetApp has an unsupported perl script that you can run as a cron job that will scan for users near their quotas and alert them to the fact. You can download the script from the NOW site. http://now.netapp.com/NOW/download/tools/disk_usage/

Another option is to upgrade to ONTAP 6.1, which supports quotas for Windows users based on SIDs. Also, I'm told that when you use the Windows quota feature, the amount of free space available to the user appears to be the amount of their quota that is free. Sounds like just what you need. :-)

Tom

-----Original Message----- From: Mike Knell [mailto:mike.knell@cs.tcd.ie] Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 7:24 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Windows, free space displays, gah

Mornin' all,

I'm besieged by Windows users complaining about not being able to find out what the state of this mysterious "quota" thing is, and complaining about files going missing because they've gone over quota, and _naturally_ this is all the fault of our filer rather than of either the users themselves for not keeping an eye on how much disk they're using, or Windows applications for not handling write failures gracefully.

What they tend to do is point to the Windows (NT and 2000, btw) disk free display and say "Look! It says I've got 35GB of free space!" without working out that this is the free space on the entire volume rather than in their quota.

What are peoples' views on providing state-of-quota information to Windows users? Ideally, the disk free display should show the state of their quota rather than the volume, but things just don't seem to work that way. We have a web page they can query their quotas from, but either that or the simple act of logging into a Sun and saying "quota -v" is considered to be rather complex and not pro-active enough..

Any advice welcome..

TIA Mike