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| Help users handle disk space cramp |
| Keeping disk usage to a minimum and available space at a maximum on users' workstations is a |
| never-ending challenge. You have a few options you can use in addition to or instead of installing |
| new hard drives or applying disk quotas to help users get past their disk space cramps. |
| If you install a new drive, some users can have a hard time with the fact that some of their |
| documents are now stored on a different drive. To alleviate that problem, you can create a shortcut |
| in the users' My Documents folders that points to the folders on the new drive where their |
| documents are stored. This gives the users quick access to the new drive from a familiar location. |
| You can also use this shortcut method as a sort of low-tech alternative to the distributed file system |
| (Dfs), which lets an administrator create a single file namespace from disparate folders and |
| systems. You might add multiple shortcuts in the user's My Documents folder to point not only to |
| multiple local folders, but also to shared network folders. |
| Another option that will ease user confusion when you add another disk is to mount that disk to an |
| empty NTFS folder in the user's My Documents folder. The new drive then appears as a folder |
| Follow these steps to accomplish this bit of magic: |
| Create an empty NTFS folder in the user's My Documents folder. |
| Add the new hard drive to the system and format it. |
| In the Disk Management console, right-click the new drive and choose Change Drive Letter And |
| Click Add, choose Mount In This NTFS Folder, click Browse, and browse to the folder you created |
| Click OK, and then close the Disk Management console. |
| These solutions are great for users who keep their documents on their local computers, but it |
| might be even better to redirect users' document folders to a network drive. There you can more |
| easily control quotas and backup. |
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