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Chapter 5: Access
Managing Volume Quotas
Network Storage System (NSS) Administrator Guide
Chapter
5
Managing Volume Quotas
You can set up specific space limits for each user or group who has write access to a volume.
Defining a user or group’s quota means that you can set a space limit (referred to as a soft quota)
that, when reached, sends a warning to the administrator and initiates a countdown of the defined
grace period. The user has the amount of time in the grace period to reduce the amount of space
used to below the soft quota limit. Users who do not reduce the space in the allotted grace period, or
who reach their hard quota limit, no longer have write access to the volume until they reduce their
usage to below their soft quota limit.
NOTE:
Before you create or edit a quota located on an encrypted volume, make sure the
volume is unlocked. You also need to set up the
Warn For
time for each volume from
the
Volume Quota
page. The
Warn For
time only affects individual quota that was
created after the
Warn For
time was set.
Changing the User’s Primary Group
Quotas are charged to the group assigned as the user’s primary group at the time of file creation. If
the user’s primary group changes, files created under the previous group continue to be charged
against that group. Note that if the user’s primary group changes while the user is connected to the
NSS, the previous primary group continues to be the group charged until the user’s connection is
closed. The new primary group becomes the group charged only after the connection is re-opened.
NOTE:
If the user is created within a domain, the primary group defined in the user profile
from the domain, not the
Primary Group
field in the NSS user profile.
