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Disk Quota for Windows 2000

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by cwilliams

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Can I set a quota on the folder level using Windows 2000? I don't want to set the quota on the user level.

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I'm running out of space on my servers...

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by joseph moore

Sorry, the built in Quota management in Win2k only works on the user level per NTFS volume. To quote from TEchnet article Q183322:

"You can set disk quotas to limit the amount of disk space users can access on a partition, that uses the NTFS."So, if you turn on the quota on drive D: on SERVER1, then it will apply for the entire D: drive, not just on certain folders.

Here is the URL to this article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q183322
(please remove any spaces)

You are gonna have to look for 3rd party tools to handle the quota in the way you have described.

Sorry for the not good news.

by erikdr

Answer 1 is correct. A few 3rd party names:
* Quota Manager
* Quota Server
* Miss Marble

Have fun,

- The Netherlands

by greybeard770

Novell allows limiting the size of a directory, without consideration of who is writing. Windows 2000 allows limiting how much a user can write to a volume, without consideration of the directory.

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