No chance!

[djomp.livejournal.com]

The most rediculous request I've heard so far is as follows. Note that the standard quota is 200Mb...

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Hi there,

My quota on xxxx won't be enough to save my files and my mail. I am trying to import my old mail to xxxx but th quota does not allow me to do it. Also, my files (backups and stuff) does not fit in the serve. Is it possible to get a much bigger disk quota (say 10GB) in xxxx. I really need it.
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I pointed him towards his local disk. I'm quite tempted to ask where he's bringing this 10Gb of stuff in from...

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[boredevilperson.livejournal.com]

Do you think he may be trying to fit his entire C drive in there?

[torkell]

Last time I found how big E:\Data was, it turned out to be heading for 10 gig. And there's other junk not in that folder, bringing E: to a total of 12 gig.

L: is just as bad (F-J are removable drives). 21.1 gig of audio data, minus about 17 for an image of C:

D: takes up 16.6, but that's due to backups of E:\Data done with xcopy and native Win2k compression. And C: is another 15 or so of software, games, and the temp directory. The swapfile and hibernation file do take up about 2 gig of that tho.

[djomp.livejournal.com]

He only started today. I set his PC up this morning...

[kalidor.livejournal.com]

well, in my old job we had 200 gigs devoted to the ten or so salaried staff at that location. Company okic required them to keep all thier work files and email files in the storage that is backed up. Files included report materials, pictures for reference, and the occasional schematic. Emails commonly required people to reference emails from up to five year previously. It was not unusual to see mail folders with sizes of 2 gigs or more.

I finally instituted a cd backup policy for documents with modification dates older then a month and email older then a year. This was in 1998 and last i saw disk usage stabilized at about 4 gigs. so that said. i am used to it.

[bookofnights.livejournal.com]

Ah! A perfect chance to give away a bunch of gmail invites, wasted! :)