I'm not sure why you say you can't set a specific user quota even though there's a different one for the root folder. We do this all the time with Windows 2008 FSRM.
JR Original Message: ----------------- From: Sean Martin [email protected] Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 08:52:06 -0800 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Qutoa's for home folders. What is your storage solution? Is this just a new server with more storage, direct attach, NAS/SAN? - Sean On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Kennedy, Jim <[email protected]>wrote: > Yep, can certainly do it that way and that is on my list of possible > solutions. Not seeing anything third party that will fill the need either. I > just hate to pigeon hole myself and get the partition size wrong. I will > need to reserve some space and make them dynamic. > > > > *From:* Sean Martin [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 22, 2011 11:02 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Qutoa's for home folders. > > > > If you're building the new storage for this environment, can you create > separate partitions for the home folders and for the shared folders? That > way disk quotas might be an option. > > > > - Sean > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Kennedy, Jim < > [email protected]> wrote: > > I am building new file storage, as you may recall from my previous > DFS/Cluster questions. > > > > I am pondering the easiest way to do storage quotas. I will end up with 600 > people in one folder. A handful of users will get larger quotas. > > > > FSRM looked good until I got into the details. I can auto populate the > root of the HomeFolderShare and hit everyone with the same quota. But trying > to then drill to a specific user and raise their quota it wont let me as it > already has a quota on it from the root. What I need is block inheritance > on quotas. I dont want to go back to disk quotas because there are shared > folders on the same disk and I dont want the use of those to count against > the users quota. > > > > Any ideas? Third party solutions? > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com What can On Demand Business Solutions do for you? http://link.mail2web.com/Business/SharePoint ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
