How do You limit drive space for personal use?

[Tony]

We have a personal drive for employees, but it's taking
up too much space. How can you limit the amount of space
on the drive for users, so for example, they can only
have like 15 mb of space to save with??? I know this is
possible, what steps need to be taken????

thanks,

Tony

[Precision]

You'll probably notice that i accidently created a new
post instead of replying to this one with your answer.
oh well. If you have NTFS running on the drive then you
can set
up "quotas" in the properties of the drive that they are
accessing. You can allocate anything from a 1KB max to a
6EB max all by username or computer! Have fun and let me
know if any questions arise.
..

>-----Original Message-----
>We have a personal drive for employees, but it's taking
>up too much space. How can you limit the amount of space
>on the drive for users, so for example, they can only
>have like 15 mb of space to save with??? I know this is
>possible, what steps need to be taken????
>
>thanks,
>
>Tony
>.
>

[Tony]

This would be great, but here's some more information
that i may have neglected to mention. The space i want to
limit happens to be a personal share folder that is
mapped on a P:drive but is the folder is physically
stored on the D: drive... would i go about the same
steps?? Thanks in advance!

Tony

>-----Original Message-----
>You'll probably notice that i accidently created a new
>post instead of replying to this one with your answer.
>oh well. If you have NTFS running on the drive then you
>can set
>up "quotas" in the properties of the drive that they are
>accessing. You can allocate anything from a 1KB max to

a

>6EB max all by username or computer! Have fun and let

me

>know if any questions arise.
>..
>
>

>>-----Original Message-----
>>We have a personal drive for employees, but it's taking
>>up too much space. How can you limit the amount of

space

>>on the drive for users, so for example, they can only
>>have like 15 mb of space to save with??? I know this is
>>possible, what steps need to be taken????
>>
>>thanks,
>>
>>Tony
>>.
>>

>.
>

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

You should leave the subject intact.
Changing the subject has been known to act as a new thread with some
newsreaders.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
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"Precision" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> You'll probably notice that i accidently created a new
> post instead of replying to this one with your answer.
> oh well. If you have NTFS running on the drive then you
> can set
> up "quotas" in the properties of the drive that they are
> accessing. You can allocate anything from a 1KB max to a
> 6EB max all by username or computer! Have fun and let me
> know if any questions arise.
> .
>
>

> >-----Original Message-----
> >We have a personal drive for employees, but it's taking
> >up too much space. How can you limit the amount of space
> >on the drive for users, so for example, they can only
> >have like 15 mb of space to save with??? I know this is
> >possible, what steps need to be taken????
> >
> >thanks,
> >
> >Tony

[Precision]

Yes, because you can't put a quota on an individual
folder, you have to do it at the drive level. Fortunately
for you, the quota hits all folders in the drive so they
will have a total usage cap on the drive itself at
whatever you set it.

>-----Original Message-----
>This would be great, but here's some more information
>that i may have neglected to mention. The space i want

to

>limit happens to be a personal share folder that is
>mapped on a P:drive but is the folder is physically
>stored on the D: drive... would i go about the same
>steps?? Thanks in advance!
>
>Tony

>>-----Original Message-----
>>You'll probably notice that i accidently created a new
>>post instead of replying to this one with your answer.
>>oh well. If you have NTFS running on the drive then

you

>>can set
>>up "quotas" in the properties of the drive that they

are

>>accessing. You can allocate anything from a 1KB max to

>a

>>6EB max all by username or computer! Have fun and let

>me

>>know if any questions arise.
>>..
>>
>>

>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>We have a personal drive for employees, but it's

taking

>>>up too much space. How can you limit the amount of

>space

>>>on the drive for users, so for example, they can only
>>>have like 15 mb of space to save with??? I know this

is

>>>possible, what steps need to be taken????
>>>
>>>thanks,
>>>
>>>Tony
>>>.
>>>

>>.
>>

>.
>

[Precision]

Yes, because you can't put a quota on an individual
folder, you have to do it at the drive level. Fortunately
for you, the quota hits all folders in the drive so they
will have a total usage cap on the drive itself at
whatever you set it.

>-----Original Message-----
>We have a personal drive for employees, but it's taking
>up too much space. How can you limit the amount of space
>on the drive for users, so for example, they can only
>have like 15 mb of space to save with??? I know this is
>possible, what steps need to be taken????
>
>thanks,
>
>Tony
>.
>

[Kristofer Gafvert]

Hello,

See this article:

"How to Enable Disk Quotas in Windows 2000"
[url]http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;183322[/url]



--
Regards,
Kristofer Gafvert - IIS MVP
[url]http://www.ilopia.com[/url] - When you need help!


"Tony" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> We have a personal drive for employees, but it's taking
> up too much space. How can you limit the amount of space
> on the drive for users, so for example, they can only
> have like 15 mb of space to save with??? I know this is
> possible, what steps need to be taken????
>
> thanks,
>
> Tony