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This article introduces the knowledge of "how to limit the disk space used by users under Windows". In the operation of actual cases, many people will encounter such a dilemma, so let the editor lead you to learn how to deal with these situations. I hope you can read it carefully and be able to achieve something!

In a multi-user system, it is very important to limit the maximum storage capacity that each user can use. Without this restriction, one user may eat up all the space, thus affecting the normal use of other users. Today we will show you how to limit the disk space available to some users in Windows.

Windows limits users' storage space using a technique called quota (Quota) management, which limits the maximum available space for users or directories.

What is a disk quota?

Disk quota is actually the storage space available to users under Windows. This technology exists not only in Windows, but also in Linux. Administrators can forcibly limit the maximum space that users can use, thus ensuring that the storage space they use will not exceed this value.

In addition to setting limits, administrators can also set alarms so that an alarm will be issued when a user's usage space reaches the upper limit. In this way, the administrator can do further processing. In addition, we need to pay attention to a few points:

In Windows, only the NTFS file system supports this feature, but FAT does not

Only administrators can set it, but other users can't.

We can only set quotas for disks or partitions, not for directories

If there are multiple partitions or disks, then we need to set them separately

Let's take a look at how to set quotas.

This article is based on Windows 10, and other versions of the operating system may be slightly different.

The first step is to enable quota management of disks.

Open my computer, then click "this computer" on the left, and then select the disk or partition you want to set up. Right-click the partition, select Properties from the menu, and a dialog box pops up.

Find the quotas tab in the dialog box shown below, and then click. In this panel, there is a button to "Show quota settings". Click this button to pop up the relevant configuration dialog box for quotas.

The quota settings dialog box is shown below. As you can see, the first check box is used to enable quota management. Then the second is whether the user is allowed to continue writing new data when the space used by the user is greater than the limit.

The second step is to limit the free space of each user with quota management.

We can set quotas for users through the contents in the red box below. It includes upper limit of usage and upper limit of alarm. Of course, the values of the two are usually different, and the former is usually larger than the latter, which can be set according to the actual situation.

The third step is to record out-of-limit events

We can choose whether or not to log the event below. If the relevant check box is checked, there will be related events when the space used by the user reaches the threshold.

Step 4, apply the quota setting

When the settings are complete, we can click the defect button or the apply button, and there will be a prompt dialog box. You can press the OK button directly.

Summary

The quota setting here is for all users, that is, the configuration of all users is consistent. Is there any way to target a single user, such as different values that are not subject to user restrictions? Obviously, this demand is more in line with the actual situation. As a matter of fact, it is in this dialog box. Let's explore it by ourselves.

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