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| Duplicate quotas from one drive to another |
| Drive quotas give administrators the means to control the amount of drive space consumed by |
| users, and they can be handy in preventing one or two users from hogging all the available storage |
| space on a shared workstation. |
| When you add another drive to a computer, Windows 2000 doesn't automatically replicate quotas |
| from an existing drive to the new one. You'll need to configure the quotas, but you can simplify this |
| task by exporting the existing quota entries to the new drive. |
| Follow these instructions to duplicate drive quotas: |
| 1. Open My Computer, right-click the existing drive, and choose Properties. |
| 2. On the Quota tab, select Quota Entries. |
| 3. In the Quota Entries dialog box, select the quota entries to export, choose Quota | Export, enter a |
| filename (don't use a file extension), and click Save. |
| 4. Open the Properties for the new drive and click Quota Entries on the Quota tab. |
| 5. Choose Quota | Import, select the quota file created in Step 3, and click Open. Close the Quota |
| 6. On the Quota tab for the new drive, choose Enable Quota Management, specify the default quota |
| Note that just importing the quota entries isn't sufficient to impose quotas on the new drive. You |
| must also enable quotas on the drive and set the default quota values as explained in Step 6. These |
| default values apply to any users who don't have an existing quota entry. |
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