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Directory listing shows more space used than NFS quota allows

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • NFS quota

Issue

When running the ls command, a directory may show more space consumed than the configured quota allows.

Example:
  • Quota configured for 50mb:
Cluster01::> volume quota report -vserver svm1 -volume vol1
Vserver: svm1
 
----Disk----  ----Files-----   Quota
Volume   Tree      Type    ID        Used  Limit    Used   Limit   Specifier
-------  --------  ------  -------  -----  -----  ------  ------   ---------
vol1     qtree     user    *           0B   50MB       0       -   *
  • Listing the directory shows 60 MB used:
$ ls -l
 
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user1   user1 20480000 Feb 15 17:13 user1_20mb-01.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user1   user1 20480000 Feb 15 17:14 user1_20mb-02.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user1   user1 20480000 Feb 15 17:13 user1_20mb-03.txt
  • When writing files, a message similar to the following may be seen:
cp: failed to close 'user1_20mb-03.txt': Disk quota exceeded

 

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