Dave Tarbatt - ACS <D.A.Tarbattat_private> writes: >I've been looking into disk quotas under Windows 2000 and have uncovered a >few anomalies. On top of a few peculiarities there appears to be a bug which >allows a user to exceed their disk quota by as much as they wish. > >[...] > >I discovered by experiment that new files can be created upto a size of >(Quota - UsedSpace + 2KB - 1byte), i.e. they can go overquota by up to 2047 >bytes. Not too much of a problem. Extending existing files can be up to >(Quota - UsedSpace +1KB -1byte) i.e. up to 1023 bytes overquota - nothing >much to be worried about. Isn't this just a cluster-size filling issue? It looks like accounting is being done on a bytes-used basis but files are managed on a per-cluster basis, so it's possible to extend files out to fill the cluster without coming into conflict with the quota system. Peter.
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