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Create a directory through CLI ONTAP 7.x

vshevchuk — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:02:38 GMT

Is there any way to create a directory from the CLI?

I need to create some authorized_keys files which is not a problem using wrfile, but first I need to create the required directories in etc/sshd.

No NFS or CIFS licenses, so CLI is it.

If there is another method that I am missing feel free to point it out.

Thanks in advance.

Re: Create a directory through CLI ONTAP 7.x

scottgelb — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 18:01:54 GMT

enable ftp or sftp/ftps

Re: Create a directory through CLI ONTAP 7.x

vshevchuk — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 18:24:00 GMT

Thanks, that does work for my systems that are 7.3.2+ as I can use sftp. Unfortrunately I have systems that are at versions prior to 7.3.2 which do not have sftp and ftp is not an option due to security issues.

So any ideas on that?

Also, I would just like to confirm that I did not miss anything, and that creating a directory through the CLI is not possible.

Thanks again

Re: Create a directory through CLI ONTAP 7.x

scottgelb — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 18:30:58 GMT

Some i/o will work over cifs without a license.. Or maybe a temp key just since it's a one time thing.

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Re: Create a directory through CLI ONTAP 7.x

aborzenkov — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 18:39:58 GMT

What could work – pack necessary files as zip (relative to /etc) and use “software install” to unzip this file on filer. Theoretically, ndmpcopy from another system may work as well (I believe there are free implementations on ndmp.org).

Re: Create a directory through CLI ONTAP 7.x

scottgelb — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 18:45:58 GMT

Zip and ndmpcopy are great ideas on how to do this without file protocol.. Very clever.

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Re: Create a directory through CLI ONTAP 7.x

vshevchuk — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:15:07 GMT

Thanks, that is a clever way to do it. Thanks for the answer.

I hope someone from NetApp is reading this so they can see what rigmarole they make their users go through for what should be a simple task.

Why this type of mundane functinality is not in ONTAP completely befuddles me?!

Re: Create a directory through CLI ONTAP 7.x

scottgelb — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:27:52 GMT

8.0.x 7mode has a diag account... I haven't tried it out but should work to create directories, vi files... so that is a good option when you upgrade from 7.3 to 8.

Re: Create a directory through CLI ONTAP 7.x

jaa — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:24:17 GMT

Kinda messy and kludgy but you could create directories with the qtree command, however, you can't create more than one level deep:

filer> qtree /bin

filer> wrfile -a /bin/test Hello this is a test # comment

filer> wrfile -a /bin/test "Including comment now # comment"

filer> qtree status vol0

Volume Tree Style Oplocks Status

-------- -------- ----- -------- ---------

vol0 unix enabled normal

vol0 bin unix enabled normal

Verifying thru NFS:

# ls

bin etc home

# cat bin/test

Hello this is a test

Including comment now # comment

Re: Create a directory through CLI ONTAP 7.x

GVM666GVM — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 09:52:16 GMT

While it is true that some IO will be allowed it will be read-only.

So decent managing of a filer is impossible without a CIFS or an NFS license.

I'm not sure if somebody else confirmed this: you can't create a directory from the command line.