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I was wondering what is the best way to calculate user disk space in NWADMIN? I know it has to be in increments of 64K. I would like to give all user 2MB of disk space. How’s the calculation done?

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this depends mainly on the type of enviroment you are in, generaly I think they recomend 20MB, but if they are working with large files, such as images, sometimes databases, or anything that you think might have the potential to grow beyond the origional setting you might want to reconsiter. also you have to take into account the number of users and the amount of disk space available.
you may even want to check with you users to see just what they use and would be storing on the network to geta good idea of how much space you should alow.

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I am not sure if I am understanding your question correctly, but you can restrict your users space all the way down to your block size. We run a 4K block size so I can restrict my users space to 4K.

If you want to set it to 2MB then enter 2048K.

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2 MB sounds a little small. How big are the users local drives? Is putting data on the server the only way to back it up? I assume you will also set user rights to these directories , remember each file handle (directory entry) uses a tiny bit of RAM. So does smaller block sizes. The only advantage to starting with 2 MB limits is that the users will soon grow used to listening to you gripe about them not performing housecleaning.

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2MB is small. Remember total user disk space is determined by the size of each & every file that is owned by the user. Check user ownership of a file by right clicking on the file and selecting properties. Also take into consideration that users sometimes like to copy files from thier local C-Drive to the network. When any file is copied from a local drive to a network drive that user becomes the owner of the file and the size of the copied file is added to the users total network disk space. Thus copying a 2MB file from a local drive to a network drive would essentually put that user at his or her network disk space limit.

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The best way to calculate user disk space for any given NetWare volume is to check under the “User Space Limits” in the “Details” of that volume. When you change your “Search Context” to the container with the users NWAdmin will tell you how much space is in use by each user. No calculations necessary. You can then restrict any user by selecting that user and clicking “Modify” at wich point you set the limit by number of KB. This needs to be done for each and every user that has rights to the volume.

To make administration easier establish “Volume Space Restrictions” in the “Details” of your user template objects. In this way, any user created with the template automatically receives the default restrictions.

Also, http://www.NetWareFiles.com has a number of tools that are useful for creating “Disk Hog” reports.

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