- Restricting folder size
- Posted by Danny on October 20th, 2005
I have set up a share on my computer for my brother to use over the network
for his "my documents". he only has a 8gb hard disk.
is there a way of limiting the size of that folder so that he can't eat up
all of my hard disk space as well??
- Posted by Carey Frisch [MVP] on October 20th, 2005
You can set disk quotas to limit the amount of disk space users can access
on a partition, but not individual folders.
How to Enable Disk Quotas
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=183322
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"Danny" wrote:
| I have set up a share on my computer for my brother to use over the network
| for his "my documents". he only has a 8gb hard disk.
|
| is there a way of limiting the size of that folder so that he can't eat up
| all of my hard disk space as well??
- Posted by Bob I on October 20th, 2005
See "quota" in Windows, Start, Help and Support.
Danny wrote:
> I have set up a share on my computer for my brother to use over the network
> for his "my documents". he only has a 8gb hard disk.
>
> is there a way of limiting the size of that folder so that he can't eat up
> all of my hard disk space as well??
- Posted by Bob I on October 20th, 2005
This is true but since the "folder" is all he has access to on the
partition, the effect is the same limit.
Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote:
> You can set disk quotas to limit the amount of disk space users can access
> on a partition, but not individual folders.
>
> How to Enable Disk Quotas
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=183322
>
- Posted by Danny on October 20th, 2005
Thanks bob
"Bob I" wrote:
> See "quota" in Windows, Start, Help and Support.
>
> Danny wrote:
>
> > I have set up a share on my computer for my brother to use over the network
> > for his "my documents". he only has a 8gb hard disk.
> >
> > is there a way of limiting the size of that folder so that he can't eat up
> > all of my hard disk space as well??
>
>
- Posted by Bob I on October 21st, 2005
You're welcome.
Danny wrote:
> Thanks bob
>
> "Bob I" wrote:
>
>
>>See "quota" in Windows, Start, Help and Support.
>>
>>Danny wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I have set up a share on my computer for my brother to use over the network
>>>for his "my documents". he only has a 8gb hard disk.
>>>
>>>is there a way of limiting the size of that folder so that he can't eat up
>>>all of my hard disk space as well??
>>
>>
