Re: Surely this is not right?
- From: MikeB <MPBrede@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:49:47 -0700 (PDT)
On Mar 23, 10:32 am, DDW <dd.wri...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:41:39 -0700 (PDT), MikeB <MPBr...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I really thought that a 160GB drive would be sufficient, since my
previous XP Laptop had a 80GB drive and I was doing fine space-wise.
Your system - if you haven't made changes - is using 15% of your drive
space for VSS and System Restore. You said it was 'difficult" to
remove unwanted restore points... it's simple: find it in the Disk
Cleanup utility under "More Options".
Let me try and take this point by point.
First, thanks for the link you provided.
I have made no changes to my system wrt drive space usage I really
wish I knew where to make these changes, I cannot find it.
My brief calculations are that my system is *not* using 15% of the
drive for this purpose, in fact, it seems to be using hugely more.
The drive is 160GB, the partition is 137GB. 15% of that is either 24GB
or 20.55GB. I reclaimed approximately 66GB of space during the last
time I ran the utility to delete restore points and VSS.
That seems inconsistent. So if this setting is easy to change, please
tel me where it is and I will adjust it. I have looked in System
Properties and it does not seem to be in the System Protection tab. I
recall seeing this setting somewhere in my old XP system, but of
course, now I can't find it.
From a difficult perspective, anything like this that is hidden a fewlayers deep and is not easy to find in the help and that I have to
remember to run before being bitten in the ass by a side effect, is,
for me, difficult. I'm sorry, it may be OK for people who are
intimately familiar with the OS and its' workings, it is not that easy
for me.
The side effects, of messing up my camera download is also
unacceptable to me, but that is just me, my camera and its' software,
not a atter that the people here have much influence over.
To change the preset allocation of space, follow the instructions
given here (also not difficult).
http://www.petri.co.il/change_amount_of_disk_space_used_by_system_res...
Take it down to 5 gigs. That should be enough to keep a few days of
restore points.
You call that "not difficult?" No UI, I have to run a freaking command-
line utility?
Anyhow, I did do it.
Here is the output of the List command:
Shadow Copy Storage association
For volume: (C:)\\?\Volume{a589e9af-cf02-19dd-bec8-001c259b5bc3}\
Shadow Copy Storage volume: (C:)\\?\Volume{a589e9af-cf02-19dd-
bec8-001c259b5b
c3}\
Used Shadow Copy Storage space: 6.656 GB
Allocated Shadow Copy Storage space: 9.108 GB
Maximum Shadow Copy Storage space: UNBOUNDED
So if I had followed the advice given by the other two posters, it
would have just taken longer, but I would still have run out of space
eventually.
DDW
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