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On NTFS the amount of space allowed for each user can be enforced at the file system level.
When a limit is set, it applies to all users on all volumes.
A warning level and a quota limit are set, the users are unpleasantly notified that they are above the warning level.
The users are "physically" prevented from writing to the volume if over the limit.
Quota is checked before NTFS compression is applied, so the limit is the logical size of the file -- not the amount of disk space it takes.
Support for disk quotas is not available in Basic, Home and Media Center versions of Windows.
Quotas must be activated after installation of Professional, Ultimate and Server versions of Windows.
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