Hello sometimes we are having issues like when some misbehaving user copies files to a server via admin share or other share and he causes disk drive to fill and a p1 ticket be created by monitoring. I am thinking about ways to prevent this. I am not talking about file server with many user files, but any kind of windows server usually without FSRM role installed.
EDIT: so I played with FSRM quotas and set a custom quota for a root of a drive like this:
I have set hard quota and space limit to a disk capacity minus a few GBs. The effect is it immediately displays lower capacity of the drive in my computer (as seen in a picture) - the same as what I set in the quota limit. This effectively prevents any user activity from filling the drive over the set limit. I am not sure about services though - are they are also prevented from writing more data above the set limit?
wmic logicaldisk get name,size,freespace
this command however shows real quota unaffected values which is good because that means monitoring software will probably be unaffected by hard quota.
The PROBLEM IS that I does not seem possible to set hard quota for C:! It remains on soft even when I set hard. If this is not possible then I can't really use FSRM quotas to prevent C: drive filling as I imagined.
