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Disk Quotas and Drop Boxes

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by hopster 1 view

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I have users set up with disk quotas on their folders... when they turn in assignments to the teachers (drop boxes) this limit stays with them because they are the owner. Is there anyway that once a assingment is turned into a dropbox (just another folder) that the disk quota on that user would reflect the change. For example mary has a 25mbs of storage she has used 5 mbs on an assignment so she is left with 20.. now when she turns this into the drop box folder she is back up to her original 25. Sorry for being pedantic.

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by timwalsh

Quotas are applied against an entire disk, not individual folder or shares. The quota is applied based on file ownership. One way around this would be to place the dropbox folder on a different disk. Another way would be for someone with administrator privileges to check the drop box on a regular basis and take ownership of all files in that folder.

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