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Originally Posted by jmc I've already suggested that simply setting a disk quota may be better and told them how to set it up, and they had a look at it... but it appears the h/d's are set up as FAT32, not NTFS. The Quota facility doesn't play on FAT32. And I REALLY don't fancy re-formatting/re-installing half-a-dozen pc's next weekend!  |
You don't need to, using microsofts covert tool from the command line you can convert a FAT32 to a NTFS partition without losing the data. Obviously you need to make backups, just in case, and do a quick read up on the tool, but it appears reliable enough.
More information from Microsoft can be found here:
How to Use Convert.exe to Convert a Partition to the NTFS File System