The NetVault SmartDisk Adminsitrator's Guide description of the "--volume-size % " parameter, may lead to confusion.
Does the parameter specify the percentage of space that SmartDisk will occupy on a volume or does it determine how much space shouldn't be used?
Bug 26883 has been opened to improve the description of the --volume-size parameter in the documentation.
By default, if a volume is added without the use of the --volume-size parameter, 100% of the volume will be used by SmartDisk (minus the necessary Last Resort Threshold).
This default behaviour is determined by the ../diskmanager/etc/storage.cfg configuration file:
Size = 100, %
which means all available space can be used by SmartDisk on that volume.
This is also shown by the Space.Limit parameter found under each volume when running the 'smartdisk config --show' :
The --volume-size parameter is used to specify how much of a Smartdisk volume can be occupied in %.
Example:
smartdisk config --update --volume "C:\Program Files\Quest Software\NetVault SmartDisk\diskmanager\stage" --volume-size 90
will result in only 90% of the specified volume being used before declaring the volume is out of space, leaving 10% untouched.
