Getting an Alert that a drive is nearly full (how do I find out)

[DougP]

I'm getting and email from the server
Alert is as follows:
The following disk is low on free disk space. Low levels of free disk space can cause performance problems and prevent users from saving files on the disk.

Drive Letter: [red]HarddiskVolume12[red]
Free Disk Space: 0.000000. MB
% Free Disk Space: 0.000000.%
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How do I find out what HarddiskVolume12 is?
I looked at all drives and they are no where near full.


DougP, MCP, A+

 

[nsanto17]

You may have a bad disk.

Whats your HD setup? Are you running RAID? If se which level?

Need some details.

 

[DougP]

yes, we are, two drives mirrored
Oh know we just had one of those 2 drives fail last month.

But where will it tell me which drive is HarddiskVolume12?

there are only two drives in the server C and D whihc is the 2 drive mirror partitioned into C & D
plus 2 CD-DVD drives
there are 3 external USB and ethernet drives as well.

DougP, MCP, A+

 

[markdmac]

HardDisk12 is going to be one of your USB drives. I will take a guess and say you are using those drives for backups and what is probably happening is you have set to keep more than one backup file.

Suppose you have set to keep 3 backup files. You have three backups on the disk and it is time to do the next backup. What happens is the system tries to put a 4th backup on the disk and then deletes the oldest backup. If the current backup were to fail you would still have your three on the disk. If however the available disk space is insufficient for 4 backups, then the system tosses that error on you.

I've encountered this problem many times with SBS and have found the problem to be any of the following:

1. Insufficient space for the backup retention policy as I described above.
2. Trying to keep too many ShadowCopies (same retention problem as above).
3. USB drives not formatted with NTFS.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

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[DougP]

I checked all the drives an none of them are full.
But yes I am using the USB and ethernet drives as backups.
There are not full by any means.
I have run into that where the USB drive was full but I keep and eye on it now.

So anyway
I guess My original question is if the server designates a drive as "HarddiskVolume12" can't I go in somewhere and see what it thinks is HarddiskVolume12 as it relates to a letter such as F or G or H?
we have C & D mirrored SCSI
F Maxtor USB drive
G H ethernet drives

DougP, MCP, A+

 

[markdmac]

Yes, go into disk management under Administrative Tools

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

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