Alternative to Disk Quota's

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Is there an alternative to disk quotas for windows 2000
server. I would like to set a warning level of 500MB on
the servers data drive and have the program run a batch
file to email/sms me the warning.

Matt
 
Matthew said:
Is there an alternative to disk quotas for windows 2000
server. I would like to set a warning level of 500MB on
the servers data drive and have the program run a batch
file to email/sms me the warning.

Matt
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You could schedule a job to run once every day, invoking this
batch file:

1 @echo off
2 Set DataDrive=D:\
3 Set Limit=0001500000000
4
5 for /F "tokens=3" %%a in ('dir /-c %DataDrive% ^| find /i "bytes free"')
do set free=0000000000000%%a
6 set free=%free:~-13%
7 echo Free space on drive %DataDrive% - %free% bytes
8
9 if "%free%" LSS "%Limit%" echo Drive %DataDrive% is full!

The routine will deal with numbers up to 9.9 TBytes.

Remove the line numbers before running the job. To send
an email, use one of the many public domain mailer programs,
e.g. mailto.exe, send.exe, blat.

Because this is a batch file, it can be used for all sorts of
other alerts too.
 
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