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How to Determine the Status of Disk Quotas
Lesson 3 Managing Disk Quotas
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You can determine the status of disk quotas in the Properties dialog box for a disk by
checking status message to the right of the traffic light icon (refer to Figure 10-18). The
color shown on the traffic light icon indicates the status of disk quotas as follows:
■ A red traffic light indicates that disk quotas are disabled.
■ A yellow traffic light indicates that Windows XP Professional is rebuilding disk
quota information.
■ A green traffic light indicates that the disk quota system is active.
How to Monitor Disk Quotas
You use the Quota Entries For dialog box (refer to Figure 10-19) to monitor usage for
all users who have copied, saved, or taken ownership of files and folders on the volume.
Windows XP Professional scans the volume and monitors the amount of disk
space in use by each user. Use the Quota Entries For dialog box to view the following:
■ The amount of hard disk space that each user uses
■ Users who are over their quota warning threshold, signified by a yellow triangle
■ Users who are over their quota limit, signified by a red circle
■ The warning threshold and the disk quota limit for each user
Guidelines for Using Disk Quotas
Use the following guidelines for using disk quotas:
■ If you enable disk quota settings on the volume where Windows XP Professional
is installed, and your user account has a disk quota limit, log on as Administrator
to install additional Windows XP Professional components and applications. In
this way, Windows XP Professional will not charge the disk space that you use to
install applications against the disk quota allowance for your user account.
■ You can monitor hard disk usage and generate hard disk usage information without
preventing users from saving data. To do so, clear the Deny Disk Space To
Users Exceeding Quota Limit check box when you enable disk quotas.
■ Set more-restrictive default limits for all user accounts, and then modify the limits
to allow more disk space to users who work with large files.
■ If multiple users share computers running Windows XP Professional, set disk
quota limits on computer volumes so that disk space is shared by all users who
share the computer.