Re: Disappearing hard disk space
- From: "kj" <kj@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 02:06:40 -0700
Mis configured shadow copy?
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/kj
"CSHerman" <CSHerman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> OK, so I've seen plenty of odd problems but this one really baffles me.
>
> I have a customer with a SBS 2003 Standard server running a RAID5 array
> with
> a total capacity of 34GB. A few weeks ago they started complaining about
> running out of disk space on the server, and sure enough they were down to
> less than 500MB. So I took some old files and archived them to tape,
> about
> 5GB worth of data, and suggested that we add a second array to have more
> storage space on the server.
>
> So, we order new disks for another array and they call me back early this
> week and tell me they are having the disk space problem again. I take a
> look
> and they are back down to 500MB of free space, strange since I know they
> are
> not saving any new, large files to the server - this is all Word and Excel
> files. So I delete some other temporary files, and they decide to delete
> some old data and we get rid of another 2GB of data. I tell them, this
> will
> work for the time being, and I will come in soon to install the additional
> drives at which point they won't have to worry.
>
> I get there today to install the new drives and damned if their free space
> isn't back below 500MB, and there is no way these users added 2GB worth of
> files in the last two days (8 users on the system). Anyhow, I install the
> new disks and proceed to copy lots of data off of the system disk (C:) and
> onto the new disk to free up space. As I move the data, I think I am
> freeing
> up plenty of space, but when I finish transferring some 8GB I find that
> the
> C: drive has only 5.5GB of free space!?!
>
> So, within the last couple of weeks I have removed close to 15GB of data
> off
> of this 34GB disk, and the amount of data added to the disk over that
> period
> is negligible. So, how do I end up with only 5.5GB of free space? The
> only
> theory I had was an unruly page file, but I monitored it this evening and
> it
> stayed put at 1.5GB. This is a typical SBS 2003 box with Veritas Backup
> Exec, Symantec AntiVirus, GFI MailSecurity...nothing out of the ordinary.
> Does anyone know what the heck could be going on?
>
> Thanks!
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