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set dir size with a batch file?
Name: Mark Robbins Date: December 5, 2002 at 09:44:26 Pacific OS: win2000/novell client CPU/Ram: PIII 256
Comment:
Is it possible to set a folders size using a batch file. ie: S:\people\*.* all folders under people i want to limit the folder size to 300MB, there are about 500 users, it would take me for ever to do each individually. I am running win2000 with a novell client, thanks in advance for your help!!!!
Name: elric Date: December 7, 2002 at 01:12:29 Pacific
Reply:
G'day, Not sure how you would go about it using a batch file. If no-one else can help , you could consider using a programming language like QBasic, C or Pascal. If there is a DOS service or BIOS call that returns the size of the directory, you could write a program that utilises this and then returns an error message if size > xMbyte. Also, this program would have to be monitoring the directory all the time, so I'm not sure how that would be handled in a multi-user system. You could, of course, create a partition of that size and let Windows deal with the error when it fills up.
Good luck
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