Re: Erratic low disk space

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Anything occuring during the period that the disk gets low -- a backup
perhaps that has a large temporary file?

Are shadow copies enabled on the C: drive? (I usually disable shadows for
all volumes except user files)

I have found the free "Treesize" utility a good one for managing space:
http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml



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Allan Williams



"artzoop" <artzoop@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,
Recently I have been receiving low disk space warnings for my C: drive
(running SBS2003 SP1), with less than 5% available ( < 500MB). My C:
is only 16GB, but in the last year or so, has consistently had
approximately 1500MB free space available. In the last week or two,
on an almost daily basis, the free disk space on C drops down to 500MB
and then back to 1500MB after a day.

I have scrutinized physical file and folder sizes, and find nothing
unusual. No large log files or database data files, etc. All
programs (except SBS OS, Exchange, etc, and Veritas) run on a
different drive. Database files for Monitoring, Exchange, etc are
under 1GB. I have disabled indexing for search. Services running
show nothing unusual. I've run a full anti-virus scan (Trendmicro)
and no virus detected.

The only changes I have made in the last few weeks to the server is
adding an external USB drive for weekly full backups and adding a new
job to Veritas for that.

I'd much appreciate any advice or suggestions what else to check to
determine where the 1GB disk space is going, and how to alleviate this
low disk problem. I have already gone thru the Microsoft document
showing how to free up space by relocating database files (Exchange,
Monitoring, shared folders, etc.). As I mentioned though, those
databases are not that large and have not changed much over the past
few months.

Thank you for your help.

Greg B.


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