Re: C-drive space gets eaten then comes back

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"Herb Martin" wrote:


"Timboi" <Timboi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

Server 2003 (Standard), SP1, all up-to-date patches

There's ~1.7 GB available on C:\ and every few days (sometimes every
day,
sometimes a few times a day) the C: gets reduced to 0 bytes and then
the
space comes back after a small while.
The server is a file/print server, with DFS (although there is not DFS
shared data on the actual C:\; the actual replicating data is on
another
drive).
I've got the space on C:\ being monitored by MOM2005 and it sends me an
email when it's running low so I can sometimes catch it happening.
The only events that appear to be happening during these times are
print
jobs but I don't think there are ever ~1.7 GB worth of spooled jobs at
any
one time (according to splinfo.exe, we might get 2GB worth of jobs in a
week). Is it possible that splinfo doesn't report the actual amount of
data
passing through the spool folder?

I can't figure out what's eating this space. Does anyone have any
suggestions. It's very unlikely to be a user doing this; they don't
have
access to C:\, and it doesn't happen for very long.

Go look in the Temp directory when it happens --and look at HIDDEN
subdirectories there too...

Look in other such caching and temp directories used by applications you
use (it's a server but PhotoShop has its own caching/temp algorythms for
instance.)

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Herb Martin, MCSE, MVP
http://www.LearnQuick.Com
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Needle in a haystack! That has given me a good idea though - If it happens
whilst I'm around and see the MOM alert come through, I can do a quick
search
of all folders modified today and see if any match the alert timestamp or
thereabouts. Somewhere to start, at least.....

You can also run something like "Dir /s /os /a-d \ >c:\cdrive.txt" and view
this
later or search for "big" directories with a Grep tool.

Grep can search for patterns like ###,###,### to find directories and files
with
more than 100 Meg of files etc.

--
Herb Martin, MCSE, MVP
http://www.LearnQuick.Com
(phone on web site)


Aha - just caught it in the act; and it does in fact look like it is the
spool folder (quickly checked print jobs and sure enough there was a print
job using 1.78 GB).
Strangely enough splinfo didn't show that this much data had spooled -
possibly because it was a PDF.
I'll just move the spool files to another volume now....

Cheers,

Tim

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