How do you deal with a user who takes up more than their share of disk space?

[her209]

Some of which are duplicate files. :|

 

[K1052]

"Delete some of your crap."

 

[MiniDoom]

Buy more hard drives maybe?

 

[FoBoT]

quotas?

 

[TitanDiddly]

Tell them that for every MB they go over, you're going to underclock their PC by that many MhZ, and lock the BIOS.

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
quotas?

 

[40Hands]

We politely tell them that disk space is limited and that they should take steps to clean up their sh!t before we have to fvcking cut them.

 

[aux]

Originally posted by: Homerboy

Originally posted by: FoBoT
quotas?

 

[Demon-Xanth]

"I just gave you 40GB free space."
"Great! So I have 80GB now!"
"No, you have 40GB"

--updated from BOFH

 

[Rubycon]

Can I use stacker or does your server use doublespace?

You want some fries with that?

No? But you want it supersized?!

:laugh:

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: her209
Some of which are duplicate files. :|

delete the dupes and tell them they are over their limit.

otherwise create quotas so they can't go over the limit.

 

[Kelemvor]

We just take files that look like they aren't needed and copy them off into a holding area. If no one complains for a month, we just delete them.

If we know who is taking up the sapace, we just send them an email letting them know how big their folders are and that they need to get it down to a certain leve or we'll do it for them.

 

[CVSiN]

Originally posted by: her209
Some of which are duplicate files. :|

Disk quotas... same as everyone else..
Active Directory is a wonderful thing..

 

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: her209
Some of which are duplicate files. :|

Is this a technology issue, or management issue? Sounds like the latter.

edit: are all the files work related?

 

[Zolty]

Send out a company wide email stressing the fact that that storage is not for personal use and that you are running out of it.