What is causing the Disk to be full?

[CarrahaG]

Hello

We have a problem where we can not account for what is using up all the disk space on a disk volume.

The disk has a physical capacity of 136.48 GB and is split into the following 3 volumes:

31 MB (Hidden)
11.13 GB (C: drive, System)
125.32 GB (D: Drive)

The D: volume is formatted as NTFS and is NOT a compressed drive. When we select the properties of the volume, it displays the following:

Used space: 132,827,795,465 bytes
Free space; 1,729,523,712 bytes
Capacity: 134,557,319,168 bytes

The following "File and Folder" options are selected:

Show hidden files and folders

The following "File and Folder" options are NOT selected:

Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)

We then open the drive and selected ALL files includind hidden and system files and request to get the properties. It shows the following:

170,264 files
4,882 Folders
Size on disk: 70,183,563,264 bytes

There are no shadow copies and the total paging file size is 3072 MB and is already included in the Size on disk value above.

How can we find out what is causing the space to be used up?

Regards,
Georges

 

[58sniper]

download treesize pro and use it to see where the space is being used.

http://www.jam-software.com/treesize/

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[itsp1965]

By any chance did you format this drive D: with a larger cluster size?

 

[jer18]

Do you have Symantec or other network Antivirus/firewall app installed?
I recently discovered that was eating away at our server space. It is creating XXXXjtun_navup.zip files 70MB-80MB in size daily, I need to find time to stop that.

 

[CarrahaG]

Hello All

I found out what was causing the problem. I took the advice and used Treesize Pro. It helped me to locate 6 temp files that were hidden and the security settings were set so that administrator was not the owner. As a result it was not counting towards the total size of the folder. Treesize Pro located them and after removing them freed up over 40GB.

Thanks to 58sniper and to all who offered advice advice.

 

[technome]

Do you have Symantec or other network Antivirus/firewall app installed?"
Symantec is one of the worst temp/leftover file offenders in the industry, seen up to 150 gigs taken up; they have been doing this for over 20 years..they never learn.



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[CarrahaG]

Hi

Actually there were some temp files from Outlook that was in a users roaming profile. I believe that the temp files were corrupted because of the size and the fact that their security settings were incorrect.