How to Enable Disk Quotas in Windows 2000

• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional

SUMMARY

This article describes how to enable disk quotas in Windows 2000.

MORE INFORMATION

You can set disk quotas to limit the amount of disk space users can access on a partition that uses the Windows NT File System (NTFS). To do so, follow these steps:

NOTE: You cannot enable disk quotas on a partition that is not using NTFS. For information about how to convert a partition that is not using NTFS, please consult the Windows 2000 release notes.

1. Double-click My Computer.



2. Right-click the partition on which you want to set disk quotas, and then click Properties.



3. On the Quota tab, click the Enable Quota Management check box to select it.



4. If you want all new users to have access to an unlimited amount of disk space, click Do Not Limit Disk Space.
   
   If you want all new users to have access to a limited amount of disk space, click Limit Disk Space To, and then type the amount of disk space (in megabytes [MB] or kilobytes [KB]). If you want a warning message to be displayed when a user is close to reaching his or her quota limit, click Set Warning Level To, and then type the amount of disk space (in MB or KB) that can be used before the warning message is displayed.



5. If you want to set a custom disk quota for a user, click Quota Entries.



6. On the Quota menu, click New Quota Entry.



7. In the Domain\Name box, type "<domain>\<username>" (without quotation marks), where <domain> is the Windows NT domain on which the user has an account, and <username> is the user for whom you are setting a disk quota.



8. If you want the user to have access to an unlimited amount of disk space, click Do Not Limit Disk Space.
   
   If you want the user to have access to a limited amount of disk space, click Limit Disk Space To, and then type the amount of disk space (in MB or KB). If you want a warning message to be displayed when the user is close to reaching his or her quota limit, click Set Warning Level To, and then type the amount of disk space (in MB or KB) that can be used before the warning message is displayed.



9. Click OK.



10. On the Quota menu, click Close.



11. Click OK, and then click OK again when you are prompted to enable disk quotas.

Disk Quota Conditions

• Disk quotas set on a partition apply only to that partition.



• Disk quotas cannot be set on individual files or folders.



• Disk quotas are based on uncompressed file sizes. For example, if you have a 20 MB disk quota that contains 18 MB of data, you cannot increase the amount of free space by compressing the data.



• If your computer is configured as a dual-boot system (that is, it is configured to run both Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000), you can exceed your quota limit when you are running Windows NT 4.0. However, when you are running Windows NT 2000, you must move files to a different partition or delete files until you are under your quota limit.

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