Disk Quotas

[benlinkknilneb]

Hey all,

We're replacing our file server (and updating the OS to Server 2003), and taking advantage of the changeover to reorganize some things that could be done better.

I'm learning that Windows has the ability to give a user a certain quota in terms of the amount of info they can store on the server, which is *almost* what I need.

Our plant keeps a "department" folder and a "personal" folder. If I limit Joe User to 500 MB with the user quota, will that mean that he can only keep 500 MB *anywhere* on the drive? Is there a way to pare it down so that the department folder can have a larger quota, available to all members of the department, and the personal folders have their own quotas? I know I could partition the drive and set the quotas that way, but there's just no other logical reason to even create a partition, so I wanted to make sure that it's the "right" way to do this.

Ben
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[Larsdemo]

You can put quota's on a disk and give a maximum of diskspace used by all users. The quota's look at the owner of the file and that's what he is calculating the quota and free space for if you want different quota's you need to make partitions and make differnet quota on that partition for that particular group.

Lars

Network admin for worldwide freight forwarders company.
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[benlinkknilneb]

Thanks for the quick response, Lars,

How do I make a quota for a group? I have, for instance, 3 Quality Engineers who share a folder. This folder should be limited to 2 GB of storage. I don't want each engineer to have 2 GB available, I want 2 GB for the group. In Active Directory, I have a Security Group called "Quality Engineers". Can I set a quota for the "Quality Engineers" group somehow?

Ben
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