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by sister-inlaw

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I need to assign a disk quota to my mac volumes that the macs can access- is there a way of hiding the available space left for them?. or creating a quota?
the problem is that if they see 2 megs vs 3 gigs, they'll be a little smarter in their decision making as to what to put on their and what not too...
thanks.

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by frobo

Hi Ron,

their is no possibilty for NT to hide Diskspace either no way for diskquotas. U have to take a third party util like Mrs. Marple, with this on U could quota the diskspace for your Mac's. ... But this sort of tools drill into the ntfs sheme, a possible problem if U want later upgrade to W2k.

Regards

Frobo

by mikel~t

I'd recommend carving smaller volumes out of the existing disks. Rather than making one 2 GB drive available to your mac users, make two 1 GB partitions, and don't make one of them available to the mac users. If the 1 GB partition fills, you can backup the data, recreate the original 2 GB partition, and restore the data, and look like a genius for having some forethought for future expansion.

You could always upgrade to W2K Server.

Hope this helps.

Mike

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