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Be aware of how user disk use is calculated. Windows determines each user's disk usage
based on the owner of each file on the volume. If ownership of a file changes, disk space use for
the previous file owner decreases and increases for the new file owner. By default, the creator of
a file is the file's owner, including files created when a user copies a file.

Activity 6-1: Enabling Quotas

Time Required: 10 minutes
Objective: Enable disk quotas on a new volume.
Description: You want to get a handle on server disk use before it gets out of hand, so you decide
to enable disk quotas on the volume where most user files are stored.

This activity assumes you have a second, unallocated disk installed on the
domain controller. If not, use unallocated disk space from Disk 0 instead
of using Disk 1.

1. Log on to your server as Administrator, if necessary.
2. Click Start , point to Administrative Tools , and click Computer Management to open the
Computer Management MMC. Click to expand the Storage node, if necessary, and then
click Disk Management .
3. Right-click the unallocated space of Disk 1 and click New Simple Volume . Click Next . In
the Simple volume size in MB text box, type 2000 , and then click Next .
4. In the Assign the following drive letter list box, click Q (for quotas), and then click Next .
5. Leave the File system and Allocation unit size settings as NTFS and Default, respectively.
Type QData in the Volume label text box. Click Next , and then click Finish . Windows for-
mats the partition, and when it's finished, the Disk Management window should look simi-
lar to Figure 6-3.

Figure 6-3 Disk Management with a new volume created