Volume Quotas information

[ITGURU]

Hi

 

I've had Disk Quotas enabled on a server for some time but always been set as unrestricted.

When viewing the quota information I have 2 things i'm not sure of:

 

Some users are duplicated twice and with different quotas used.

 

Secondly, for some reason for some users the amount doesn't add up to what they have used when you view the folder properties.

 

Any ideas?

[Steve21]

Is this Disk Quotas or FSRM style?

 

If it's old style I found that sometimes users can have files in their area they don't own and it wouldn't count against them e.g. If I copied a file into there's then it's not their quota that's used

 

FSRM style much more reliable as it's per user folder rather than "user"

 

Steve

[ITGURU]

Is this Disk Quotas or FSRM style?

 

If it's old style I found that sometimes users can have files in their area they don't own and it wouldn't count against them e.g. If I copied a file into there's then it's not their quota that's used

 

FSRM style much more reliable as it's per user folder rather than "user"

 

Steve

 

it is Disk Quota. Even for my own home directory where I've created every file, quota manager says I have only used 2.98MB but whole user space is 19GB

 

As for FSRM quotas If I point it to the top level folder of all the users inside, is it still possible to set quotas for each user as I only want to restrict those with masses of data.

[Steve21]

Yep, you point it at a top level, can set for example 1TB limit, and then just manually modify the ones you want etc

 

Or just set most as soft quotas so it wont do anything but monitor, but change it to hard on those you want etc Many options

 

For example, I did the opposite, most are like 35GB but I'm 1000000000000000TB

 

In your example though, who actually owns the files? Even if they're in your area doesn't mean its always you if for example backup software takes control etc etc

 

Steve

[ITGURU]

Yep, you point it at a top level, can set for example 1TB limit, and then just manually modify the ones you want etc

 

Or just set most as soft quotas so it wont do anything but monitor, but change it to hard on those you want etc Many options

 

For example, I did the opposite, most are like 35GB but I'm 1000000000000000TB

 

In your example though, who actually owns the files? Even if they're in your area doesn't mean its always you if for example backup software takes control etc etc

 

Steve

 

The owner of each users top folder is the local server\administrators but the files inside vary to either that or the user's name depending on which users folder I check.

[Steve21]

If it's an admin owner, it's not counted as their quota.

 

So for example a 20GB ISO admin owns = 0 Quota for Jimmy

 

Steve