From Unix on an NFS mount, use "rm -rf <path to qtree>". This will delete all files and subdirectories without prompting.

From Windows on a CIFS mount, use "rd <path to qtree> /s/q". This will delete all files and subdirectories without prompting.

For CIFS, you must stop and shares within the specific qtree structure. "cifs shares -delete <sharename>".

-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Steve Losen Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 8:01 AM To: Patrick van Helden Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: Deleting Qtrees

Hi,

Does anyone have any information about deleting qtrees from the filer?

For example with the rm command?

From a Unix NFS client you can use "rm -r" to remove a qtree.

There isn't an ONTAP command to do it on the filer. You use a NFS or CIFS client to remove the qtree directory.

Don't forget to update your quotas file to remove entries for the deleted qtree. Then you should run "quota off" and "quota on". There is a bug that crashes the filer if you run "quota resize" after a particular sequence of qtree deletions and quota file updates. Your version of ONTAP may have this bug fixed. We crashed a filer running 7.0.1R1 due to this bug.

Steve Losen scl@virginia.edu phone: 434-924-0640

University of Virginia ITC Unix Support

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