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USB drive Size limits
Hi Everyone, I'm wondering if anyone has seen a way of limiting the
size of a USB storage device, ie up to a 1 Gig device, or a way of stopping USB attached external hard drives while still allowing USB key/drive/thumb drives etc to be used? Thanks. |
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USB drive Size limits
John Green wrote:
Hi Everyone, I'm wondering if anyone has seen a way of limiting the size of a USB storage device, ie up to a 1 Gig device, or a way of stopping USB attached external hard drives while still allowing USB key/drive/thumb drives etc to be used? Thanks. My 'USB drive letter manager' can handle this. http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html You can define drive letters or mount points depending on the size of the attached drive. If you let it mount large drives to a folder on an NTFS drive and remove all access rights to the parent folder then the user cannot access it. Sample: You create a folder C:\LargeUsbDrives and remove all access rights for the user. Then you configure this in the USBDLM.INI [DriveLettersSize1] MinSizeMB=1024 DriveLetter1=C:\LargeUsbDrives\%devname% USB drives 1024MB ('real' MB) stay untouched, drives =1024MB are remounted to C:\LargeUsbDrives\%devname% where %devname% is replaced by the drives device name. If the folder is in use then trailing numbers are used. Greetings from Germany Uwe |
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USB drive Size limits
Uwe Sieber wrote: Greetings from Germany ......... Uwe Great, thanks, I will check it out. |
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USB drive Size limits
John Green wrote:
Uwe Sieber wrote: Greetings from Germany ........ Uwe Great, thanks, I will check it out. If it works for you I can add a feature that immediately removes the drive instead of remounting it to somewhere else. Furthermore a setting is needed to ignore a USBDLM.INI on the attached drive because the settings there would overrule the setting in the global USBDLM.INI. Uwe |
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