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Hi, Phil. That is somewhat what I expected. I did a bit of digging and found the following registry key which might solve your issue. Unfortunately, the setting seems to be system wide and not drive specific. Other then that the Windows XP client seems to be working like a charm. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer Value Name: NoLowDiskSpaceChecks [REG_DWORD] 0 = NoLowDiskSpaceChecks Disabled 1 = NoLowDiskSpaceChecks Enabled These seems to be the condition in which messages are displayed: When free disk space reaches 200 megabytes (MB), you receive the following message for 10 seconds, once per session: - You are running out of disk space on [drive]. To free space on this drive by deleting old or unnecessary files, click here. When free disk space reaches 80 MB, you receive the following message for 30 seconds, every four hours, twice per session: - You are running very low on disk space on [drive]. To free space on this drive by deleting old or unnecessary files, click here. When free disk reaches 50 MB, you receive the following message for 30 seconds, every five minutes, until free space is above 50 MB: - You are running very low on disk space on [drive]. To free space on this drive by deleting old or unnecessary files, click here. >>> Phil Nelson <phil_at_cs.wwu.edu> 10/23/2006 11:32 PM >>> > One thing I did notice is that the disk usage reported by explorer is > off. Explorer is reporting that the volume has one terabyte of disk > space with 511 gigabytes free. > > Are these numbers off on purpose to fool Windows for some reason? Sorry. Those numbers are off. I got real irritated at windows popping up the "your disk is nearly full" messages whenever the cache got full. (I used to report the cache size and cache used numbers for the volume size.) I couldn't find a way to convince Windows to ignore the fact that the disk looked full. So the way I did it was to produce weird numbers. In the next beta I'll try to produce numbers closer to the cache size. I may report the capacity as twice the size of the cache and the use as the usage of the cache. That way a full cache looks to windows that it still has a half empty disk and doesn't start popping up those annoying "please delete some files on this disk" windows. --Phil -- Phil Nelson NetBSD: http://www.NetBSD.org ( http://www.netbsd.org/ ) e-mail: phil@cs.wwu.edu Coda: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu ( http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/ ) http://www.cs.wwu.edu/nelsonReceived on 2006-10-24 11:43:20