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by g60rmm

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Does anyone know of a way to limit the size of directories in W2K without using disks quotas. Or of a way to monitor directory sizes and send alerts when they go over a certain size.

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by f_somers

Hi,

limiting disk size is what disk quotas do. Whether you use the one built into W2K or a 3rd party software, it's pretty much to only way to do it unless you use scripting or write a program to do it for you. You would have to write a program or script that monitors the size of the directory and then changes the ACL for the directory. Of course it has to also return the ACL back to "normal" once it has detected that the size of the directory has decreased. But the question is: why not use disk quota??

Monitoring and sending alerts requires to use of a SNMP service. Most servers (Compaq for example) have some sort of monitorig software that you can setup to do this. If you have a 3rd party enterprise management tool such as Openviewor UnicenterTNG, they will also monitor and send alerts.

Hope this helps,
Floris

by bobleona

Store directory on another partition of the size you want to limit it too, or on a hard drive you want of the size you prefer.

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