Mainframeguy
Debiant by way of Ubuntu
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- 29 Aug 2002
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Ok guys - I feel you'll have something to say here (like maybe quotas suck?) anyways... here goes....
I have gone wifi and moved my old AMD 1800 out for the little folks to use and so having got biggest little folks an iPod and witnessed how they squable over who gets Win98 (PII) and who gets XP (1800) I thought I'd better try to nip in the bud the capacity on the XP (40GB) so, I thought, I can use that disc quota thingy to MAKE them kinda share?
Anyways, I set it up and closed - it told me it might take a few minutes sorting itself out.... second later - Blue screen of death!
on reboot Microsfot ask me for the full dump - so I set it that way - comes back up OK (except that disc report about 117% free! But we let that bug pass)
Being slightly on the cautious side I opt for a discscan...
On trying that I have to - as you all know - schedule and reboot.
But on reboot guess what - I get BSOD! Not sure where - don't really have patience for watching whole scandisc thing.
So I try again and it gives me the countdown to press any key - well I try but having a cordless keyboard it doesn't seem to register! So presently second disc scan is attempting (hopefully with no BSOD).
MY question - is simple though - disc quotas, yes or no? I'll try to make it a poll maybe and I'll be interested to see answers...
since it will be a yes/no poll please do not vote if you don't know or don't use because you do not need - that would skew results.
And if anyone wants to help me - they could advise if I need to plug in my corded k/board or if I can get the machine out of this mess without....
I have gone wifi and moved my old AMD 1800 out for the little folks to use and so having got biggest little folks an iPod and witnessed how they squable over who gets Win98 (PII) and who gets XP (1800) I thought I'd better try to nip in the bud the capacity on the XP (40GB) so, I thought, I can use that disc quota thingy to MAKE them kinda share?
Anyways, I set it up and closed - it told me it might take a few minutes sorting itself out.... second later - Blue screen of death!
on reboot Microsfot ask me for the full dump - so I set it that way - comes back up OK (except that disc report about 117% free! But we let that bug pass)
Being slightly on the cautious side I opt for a discscan...
On trying that I have to - as you all know - schedule and reboot.
But on reboot guess what - I get BSOD! Not sure where - don't really have patience for watching whole scandisc thing.
So I try again and it gives me the countdown to press any key - well I try but having a cordless keyboard it doesn't seem to register! So presently second disc scan is attempting (hopefully with no BSOD).
MY question - is simple though - disc quotas, yes or no? I'll try to make it a poll maybe and I'll be interested to see answers...
since it will be a yes/no poll please do not vote if you don't know or don't use because you do not need - that would skew results.
And if anyone wants to help me - they could advise if I need to plug in my corded k/board or if I can get the machine out of this mess without....