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[generator85]

Last night one of my disks was full to the point that deleting a file caused the entire NAS to become unresponsive. To avoid this in the future I would like to set a quota to always leave a couple of MB's of free space.

I found the Quotas page in Account Management, but "Volume_1 Used" displays 0 MB for my user account. It's the only user account on the NAS. How should this work?

[ivan]

The idea is to set the amount of space a user can use on the NAS.  If you have not enabled quotas for the account then nothing will display because there is nothing to display.

If you were deleting a file your NAS should not have become unresponsive unless the Recycle Bin active (this should be checked and emptied as necessary).  The normal delete of a file just changes the beginning of the file name and marks the space taken by the file as available for use, the recycle bin moves the file to a specific place and there is no freeing up of disk space.

[generator85]

Ok I've added a new HDD. The strange thing is that for this disk "Volume_2 Used", it does show the number of MB's used. I guess I'll see what will happen now that I've enabled it (still 0MB for volume_1 right now).

[EDIT]Unfortunately I don't see an option to send a notification if the quotas are exceeded, so that makes this feature not very useful for me.[/EDIT]

Also the recycle bin is not enabled while it hanged, still I had to unplug the NAS since It wouldn't shutdown.

[ivan]

As far as I know (we have never encountered it) if you try to exceed the quota you will get a message saying you can't do that and the files that exceed the quota will not be written to the NAS.