USB drive Size limits

[John Green]

Hi Everyone, I'm wondering if anyone has seen a way of limiting the
size of a USB storage device, ie up to a 1 Gig device, or a way of
stopping USB attached external hard drives while still allowing USB
key/drive/thumb drives etc to be used? Thanks.

 

[Uwe Sieber]

Hi Everyone, I'm wondering if anyone has seen a way of limiting the
size of a USB storage device, ie up to a 1 Gig device, or a way of
stopping USB attached external hard drives while still allowing USB
key/drive/thumb drives etc to be used? Thanks.

My 'USB drive letter manager' can handle this.
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html
You can define drive letters or mount points depending on
the size of the attached drive. If you let it mount large
drives to a folder on an NTFS drive and remove all
access rights to the parent folder then the user cannot
access it.

Sample: You create a folder C:\LargeUsbDrives and remove
all access rights for the user. Then you configure this
in the USBDLM.INI

[DriveLettersSize1]
MinSizeMB=1024
DriveLetter1=C:\LargeUsbDrives\%devname%


USB drives <1024MB ('real' MB) stay untouched, drives >=1024MB
are remounted to C:\LargeUsbDrives\%devname% where %devname%
is replaced by the drives device name. If the folder is in use
then trailing numbers are used.


Greetings from Germany

Uwe

 

[John Green]

Greetings from Germany .........>
Uwe

Great, thanks, I will check it out.

 

[Uwe Sieber]

Great, thanks, I will check it out.

If it works for you I can add a feature that immediately
removes the drive instead of remounting it to somewhere
else. Furthermore a setting is needed to ignore a USBDLM.INI
on the attached drive because the settings there would
overrule the setting in the global USBDLM.INI.


Uwe