RE: Disappearing disk space?

Hello Nik,

Thank you for posting here.

According to your description, I understand that your SBS system partition
free space disappear at every 03:00. If I have misunderstood the problem,
please don't hesitate to let me know.

Based on my research, I think this issue relate to 3rd-party software or
some scheduled tasks running on SBS. I suggest we try the following steps
to see if we can resolve this issue:

1. Please check the scheduled tasks running on SBS

a. Please open control panel->Scheduled Tasks

b. Please check whether some scheduled tasks' Next Run time is nearby 03:00

c. Please move all scheduled tasks to another folder, the tasks will do not
run, then monitor the SBS at 03:00

d. If the issue persists, we can move all scheduled tasks back.

2. Please do clean boot on SBS and monitor to narrow down this issue

To clean boot the problematic computer, please use the steps below:
a. Click Start, click Run, and then in the Open box, type "MSCONFIG"
(without the quotation marks). Click OK.

b. In the System Configuration Utility (MSConfig) window, click to select
the Selective Startup button.

c. Click to clear the check mark from the "Load startup items" below
Selective Startup.

d. Click the Services tab, click to check the "Hide All Microsoft Services"
box, and remove all the check marks from the remained Non-Microsoft
Services. Please note that the Exchange services could be marked as
non-Microsoft. Please do not disable those services.

e. Click OK to close the MSConfig window. Click Yes when you are asked to
restart your computer in order to enable the changes.

f. After restarting, please monitor and check whether this issue will
reoccur.

g. If there are no more problems, please use the above steps to enable
services and startup items one by one in order to figure out the root cause
of this issue.

3. For SBS 2003 server, the 2.5GB free space in system partition is too
little. I suggest you move some data or folders from system partition to
additional partition or disk. This will make SBS run smooth.

This document provides step-by-step instructions for moving each of the
data folders for Windows Small Business Server 2003. The data folders
include the Users Shared Folders, SharePoint and Monitoring databases,
Exchange databases and log files, Sent Faxes folder, and ClientApps shared
folder. You can use the instructions in this document to move one or all of
the data folders.

Moving Data Folders for Windows Small Business Server 2003
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=a1d0af69-1287-4225-
bd8b-59c89f44984b&displaylang=en

Hope these steps will give you some help.

Thanks and have a nice day!

Best regards,

Terence Liu(MSFT)

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| From: "nik" <nik_AT_cict.co.uk>
| Subject: Disappearing disk space?
| Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:42:00 +0100
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| Hi - hope someone can help here...
|
| I'm running SBS2003 SP2 on a 12Gb system partition with additional data
| drive. Normally the system partition has about 2.5G free space. BUT...
|
| At about 03:00 (local time) on most days (but not all!) this space
suddenly
| disappears, and the disk becomes full - so we have the usual mayhem which
| happens when the system disk fills up - DHCP and licensing services fail,
| etc etc.
|
| Almost always, the disk space magically reappears soon afterwards (I can't
| tell exactly how long, as there's no event to indicate it, but certainly
by
| 07:00), so the server is fine by the time users need it. But today it
| wasn't - the system remained at zero free space at 9am, so I deleted about
| 200Mb of rubbish, then rebooted. When it came back up, there was 700Mb of
| space on C - not 200Mb or 2.5Gb.
|
| Some extra info...
|
| 1: I checked the Properties of all the files and folders in C:\, and
totted
| up the disc space used. It's about 9.5Gb, meaning that there should be
| 2.5Gb free space.
| 2: Automatic Updates is set to Check and Notify for new updates, but not
to
| download them.
| 3: We have a scheduled backup system (Veritas Backup Exec) running at 11pm
| every night, but as far as I can tell there are no processes initiated at
| 3am.
| 4: Nothing appears in the System or Application event logs to indicate
what
| causes the loss of space - the first indication of a problem is a system
| event 2013, indicating low disk space, which happens shortly after 03:00..
|
| So does anyone have any idea where my system disc space is disappearing to
| at 3am most days, and how I can reliably get it back?
|
| Thanks
| Nik
|
|
|

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