Disc Space Extremely Low

[CMXUser]

Hello All,

I am currently having a serious issue with my disc space on my D:\, This past week I received an alert that all 55GB of this drive was full(Impossible) but true. I moved 2 folder's off this server and onto another and free'd up about 18GB. Now I am back to square 1. 0 bytes free. Something is eating up this storage. Any suggestions anyone?. This server is our File,Print server.

 

[itsp1965]

By any chance are you creating snapshots of your disk using Volume Shadow Copy.

 

[markdmac]

My crystal ball is not working today to know what programs or files you are storing on the drive.

As was suggested, look to reduce the number of shadow copies you are saving. If this drive is used for Exchange message stores, ensure that the logs are being flushed.

If AV is installed on that drive, make sure old definitions are being deleted.

Scan for viruses and make sure you don't have a virus that creates files.

Search the drive for all files above 10MB. Search the drive for MP3 files, then fire anyone saving them to the server. Search for AVI and MPG files too.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

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[kmcferrin]

There is a tool called TreeSize Pro that you can download that will scan your hard disks for you and do reporting on what is taking up the space. It's not free, but there is a time-limited eval. The company that makes it is called JAM Software.

At any rate, you can have it scan your disk and it will show you a nice graph that illustrates how much each directory is taking up. Then you click on that directory and it gives the breakdown for the sub directories, etc. I've used this several times to find log files growing out of control or users who like to store everything that they can find on the server.

 

[Cstorms]

Also, you could use windirstat it gives you very detailed information as well as the ability to use an explorer like gui to navigate to the incriminating items. Good luck.