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which was a considerable advantage over FAT. Many compelling features have been added, par-
ticularly with the release of Windows 2000:
• Disk quotas —Enable administrators to limit the amount of disk space that users' files can
occupy on a disk volume. Starting with Windows Server 2008, quotas can also be speci-
fied for folders.
• Volume mount points —Make it possible to associate the root of a disk volume with a
folder on an NTFS volume, thereby forgoing the need for a drive letter to access the
volume.
• Shadow copies —Enable users to keep historical versions of files so that they can revert a
file to an older version or restore an accidentally deleted file.
• File compression —Allows users to store documents in a compressed format without
needing to run a compression/decompression program to store and retrieve the
documents.
• Encrypting File System (EFS) —Makes encrypted files inaccessible to everyone except
the user who encrypted the file, including users who have been granted permission to
the file.

Disk Quotas With the number and types of files used today requiring more disk space on
corporate servers, disk quotas are a welcome tool to help administrators get a handle on server
storage. Typically, disk quotas are set on an NTFS volume and, by default, apply to all users
except administrators. Quotas are configured in the Quota tab of an NTFS volume's Properties
dialog box (see Figure 6-1).

Figure 6-1 The Quota tab