Re: OT - the incredible shrinking hard drive
From: Jeff Cochran (jeff.nospam_at_zina.com)
Date: 08/19/04
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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:01:29 GMT
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 09:06:12 -0400, "D. Shane Fowlkes"
<shanefowlkes@h-o-t-m-a-i-l.com> wrote:
>Hey guys. This IS off topic but since there's such a plethora of knowledge
>here, I thought I'd toss this out in here.
>
>I run my own web server - it runs Windows 2k Advanced Server. It has AV
>software and all that. I also use Spyware trackers and Lavasoft's Ad-aware.
>The OS is constantly updated too. The machine basically only has IIS5, SQL
>Server 2k, and DeepMetrix LiveStats. It has about 6 GBs for the OS and
>another 20 GB for storage.
>
>For the past couple of months, the HD free space has been shrinking and
>shrinking. The first time the HD ran out of space, I cleaned out all the
>TMP, LOG, and DMP files, did a disk clean up, manually deleted all the
>Windows SP folders (with the funky names), cleared out the Event Viewer, and
>so on. The second time this happened, I uninstalled a bunch of programs
>such as Office 2000 to free up space along with all the standard stuff
>mentioned above. Now it's done it again and I can't figure out WHY this is
>happening and where the space is actually being used. I'm down to 10MB of
>free space (it lost 70+MB over night last night). All my Stats log files
>are on the storage ("E:") drive along with the SQL Server data files and all
>web site files - so they're not taking up any space on the OS drive ("C:").
>All the Inetpub/Mail folder are empty too.
>
>I'm at a loss. Any pointers??
The obvious possibility is you're being used as a WaReZ host. You'll
need to do some digging, but you could look for all files more recent
than 3 days and see what they are. Look at running services and see
if ServU has been installed, or if you run your own FTP service look
at the log files and see what's connecting and being requested. Check
your firewall logs as well.
Also try a W2K group for help on normal system issues that could cause
this. Such as browsing from the server and having a 10GB cache for
your Internet Explorer. Log files or anything else written to the
drive.
Jeff
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