Practical tips for operating disk quotas under Vista

We know that for NTFS file systems, each user can be assigned a specified amount of disk space, which can be used by both local and remote login users. If your system is like multiple accounts, it is necessary to use disk quotas. Otherwise, your hard disk space may be full, especially under Windows Vista. Here, I will introduce some practical tips for operating disk quotas under Windows Vista: Tip 1: Quickly set disk quotas The operation of disk quotas is very simple. Open the disk properties and switch to the “Quotas” tab. Check here. Enable quota management & rdquo; and <;reject disk space to users above the quota limit" two check boxes. Click the “Quota Item” button in the lower right corner, and the “Quota Item” window will open. Click the “New Quota Item” button on the toolbar to select the disk to be allocated in the pop-up dialog box. For quota accounts, you can enter the account name manually, or you can search for it. After confirming, set the disk space and warning level in the “Add New Quota Item” dialog box (see Figure 1). After returning, you can view the account. Information such as disk quota and space usage. When the account is logged into the system, only the allocated disk quota will be used. Tip 2: Use the Fsutil command to manage disk quotas In addition to viewing disk quotas through the Disk Properties window, we can also use the Fsutil command to manage disk configurations. Enter the command prompt environment, manually enter the "Fsutil quota query J: & rdquo; command to view the disk quota of the J disk, as shown in Figure 2, you can see that the disk quota shown here is in bytes. to show. If you need to modify the existing disk quota, for example, to limit the disk space of the llh account to 900MB and set the warning level to 800MB, you can follow the format below, and the number of bytes can be opened in the “Calculator” window. Calculated Get: Fsutil quota modify J: 943718400 838860800 llh Tip 3: Specify the same disk quota setting on multiple partitions Still open the quota items window, execute the "quota →export” command in turn, or execute from the right-click menu The command, in the dialog box that pops up, specify the export path and file name. In the future, we can open the quota item window in other partitions, and then execute the "quota → import” command to import the quota setting file exported in advance. Quick application. Tip 4: Quickly delete or move files for specific users Although Windows Vista's search function is quite powerful, this feature does not search for files owned by a particular user on a certain partition. It is easy to use disk quotas. This requirement. For example, we need to delete or move the files owned by the llh user on the D drive. You can open the quota entry window, select the configuration settings of the llh user, right-click and select the “Mail” command, and the disk quota window will pop up. You can see all the files owned by the user. Select these files and select the “delete” or “move” button. Note that only after moving the file to ” the specified path, right The "Move" button will become available.