topic Re: Quota (and quota report) not working in ONTAP Hardware

Quota (and quota report) not working

JEREMY_CLUZEL — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:15:23 GMT

Hi,

I have a strange problem on my filer.
I created a Qtree "test" on a volume "VOLUME".
I also defined a "user quota" of 1GB/user and with a threshold of 800MB.
I checked the "/etc/quotas" file:

#Auto-generated by setup Fri Jun 29 17:36:20 GMT 2012

* user@/vol/VOLUME/test 1048576K - 819200K - -

and everything seems OK.

But, the quota doesn't seem to apply. Moreover, the "quota report" command doesn't even show that the quota applies:

FAS2240> quota report /vol/VOLUME/test/JCL/File_1.exe

K-Bytes Files

Type ID Volume Tree Used Limit Used Limit Quota Specifier

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

quota: no quota for file /vol/VOLUME/test/JCL/File_1.exe.

Do I miss something ?

Thanks,

Regards,

Jeremy

Re: Quota (and quota report) not working

James_Littlefield — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:45:08 GMT

Did you remember to turn quotas on this volume ("quota on VOLUME")?

Re: Quota (and quota report) not working

JEREMY_CLUZEL — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:39:26 GMT

Yes, quotas are already enabled on this volume.
They even seem to be effective on another qtree. FYI this another qtree is listed when I do a "quota report" command.

Re: Quota (and quota report) not working

James_Littlefield — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:58:40 GMT

You might want to turn off quotas on this volume and than turn them back on to force a "rebuild". running "quota status" will let you know when the quota rebuild has been completed.

Re: Quota (and quota report) not working

ogra — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:30:58 GMT

Well you are correct with the steps. However, if you haven't restarted the Quota services then the new change in the file will not come into effect.

Re: Quota (and quota report) not working

JEREMY_CLUZEL — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:23:55 GMT

James.Littlefield was right.
Thanks for all.
Regards,

Jeremy