Tracking quotas generate reports of disk and file usage and do not limit resource usage. When tracking quotas are used, resizing quotas in your quotas file is less disruptive, because you can use the quota resize command. Without tracking quotas, you must turn quotas off and back on to change them.
To create a tracking quota, you enter a dash ("-") in the disk and files fields. This tells Data ONTAP to monitor disk and files usage for that target and volume, without imposing any limits.
You can also specify a default tracking quota, which applies to all instances of the target. Default tracking quotas enable you to track usage for all instances of a quota type (for example, all qtrees or all users). In addition, they enable you to modify the quotas file without having to stop and restart quotas.
The following quotas file shows tracking quotas in place for a specific user, group, and qtree:
#Quota target type disk files thold sdisk sfile #----------- ---- ---- ----- ----- ----- ----- kjones user@/vol/vol1 - - eng1 group@/vol/vol1 - - proj1 tree@/vol/vol1 - -
The following quotas file contains the three possible default tracking quotas (users, groups, and qtrees):
#Quota target type disk files thold sdisk sfile #----------- ---- ---- ----- ----- ----- ----- * user@/vol/vol1 - - * group@/vol/vol1 - - * tree@/vol/vol1 - -