11-10 Dell PowerVault 720N, 740N, and 760N System Administrator and Command Reference Guide

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If a write from a CIFS client to a filer causes a quota to be exceeded, the user experi-
ence depends on the operating system and the application. Following are two
examples:
An application might display a message as follows:
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When a user tries to copy a file to the filer using the Explorer in Windows 95, the
error is as follows:
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Initially, the maximum number of files on the filer is set at one for every 32 KB of disk
space. The number is increased automatically when you add a new disk. The increase
is determined by the filer, and is not a user-specified value.
Unlike UNIX, which requires that you specify the maximum number of files in a file
system when you create the file system, the filer enables you to use the maxfiles
command to increase the number of files for each volume at any time.
NOTE: Use caution when increasing the maximum number of files because after you
increase this number, you can never reduce it. As new files are created, the file
system consumes the additional disk space required to hold the inodes for the
additional files; there is no way for the filer to release that disk space. An inode is a
data structure containing information about files.

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To see how many files are in a volume, use the df -i
pathname
command, which
shows how many inodes have been used, or use the maxfiles
volume
command.
For example, both of the following commands show that the home volume has used
2,872 inodes:
df -i /vol/home
Filesystem iused ifree %iused Mounted on
/vol/home/ 2872 118090 2% /vol/home
maxfiles home
Volume home: maximum number of files is currently 120962 (2872 used)