How the Disk field works

The Disk field specifies the maximum amount of disk space that the quota target can use. The value in this field represents a hard limit that cannot be exceeded.

The following list describes the rules for specifying a value in this field:

You cannot leave the Disk field blank.
The value that follows the Type field is always assigned to the Disk field; thus, for example, Data ONTAP regards the following two quotas file entries as equivalent:
```
    #Quota Target         type           disk      files
     /export              tree           75K       
     /export              tree                     75K
```
K means 1,024 bytes, M means 2 to the 20th power or 1024 * 1024 bytes, and G means 2 to the 30th power or 1024 * 1024 * 1024 bytes.
Note: The Disk field is not case-sensitive. Therefore, you can use K, k, M, m, G, or g.
The maximum value you can enter in the Disk field is one of the following values (equivalent to 16 TB):
- 16,383G
- 16,777,215M
- 17,179,869,180K
Note: If you omit the K, M, or G, Data ONTAP assumes a default value of K. The value cannot be specified in decimal notation.
The value in the Disk field should be a multiple of 4 KB.
If it is not , the Disk field can appear incorrect in quota reports. This happens because the Disk field is always rounded up to the nearest multiple of 4 KB to match disk space limits, which are translated into 4-KB disk blocks.
Your quota limit can be larger than the amount of disk space available in the volume.
In this case, a warning message is printed to the console when quotas are initialized.
To apply a tracking quota (which tracks disk usage without imposing a limit), type a hyphen (-).

Parent topic: The syntax of quota entries