Profile Partitions

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Kirk Sabre

Hey, it's me again. I was wondering if there was a way
to limit the amount of data that someone can put in their
profile. I thought about partitioning the hard drive,
but I'm not sure if the profiles could be kept on
seperate drives from XP, even if they are virtual. I
have three users, and I want to give them each 8 GB of
space in their profiles, and the rest goes to the actual
hard drive for programs and such.

Thanks in advance for the help.
 
Hey, it's me again. I was wondering if there was a way
to limit the amount of data that someone can put in their
profile. I thought about partitioning the hard drive,
but I'm not sure if the profiles could be kept on
seperate drives from XP, even if they are virtual. I
have three users, and I want to give them each 8 GB of
space in their profiles, and the rest goes to the actual
hard drive for programs and such.

Thanks in advance for the help.
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If using NTFS, Disk Quotas should do what you want. Check Help and Support
for details.
 
I followed your suggestion and checked the Help and
Support, but it didn't really tell me what I wanted to
know. What I'm trying to do is set it so they have a
limited amount of space in their profile, but still have
unlimited and free access to the regular C drive. Kinda
like giving each person their own little hard drive for
storing personal stuff... but they can still install
programs and what-not for everyone's use.

Does anyone know if disk quota's are capable of that?
And if not, exactly what they *are* capable of? The help
file is rather oblique...
 
I followed your suggestion and checked the Help and
Support, but it didn't really tell me what I wanted to
know. What I'm trying to do is set it so they have a
limited amount of space in their profile, but still have
unlimited and free access to the regular C drive. Kinda
like giving each person their own little hard drive for
storing personal stuff... but they can still install
programs and what-not for everyone's use.

Does anyone know if disk quota's are capable of that?
And if not, exactly what they *are* capable of? The help
file is rather oblique...
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The limitations are on a per volume basic - not per folder. The limitation
is for space they use for their personal files. It does not limit their
access to resources normally allowed to the user account (programs
installed on C: for example). The following article was written for Win2000
but applies to WinXP as well.

How to Enable Disk Quotas in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;183322
 
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