Loosing Disk Space
I have a Windows 2008 SBS. It has been online for a few months now. When the original setup was done the OS and all Applications took 30GB of space for example. My partition was 70GB so I had 40GB leftover. Since then I have not installed anything. Exchange, WSUS and Sharepoint have been moved to a different partition. I should still be at 40GB but I am now down to 10GB of free space. Nothing should be writing to C drive but something is chewing up all that space. I have no virises either. Has anyone come across this? Danny
June 22nd, 2010 2:07am

You can search the disk for files with today's or recent date modified to find the, most likely, log files location. Regards, Dave Patrick .... Microsoft Certified Professional -Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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June 22nd, 2010 2:19am

do you think it is log files?
June 22nd, 2010 2:42am

More than likely yes. Regards, Dave Patrick .... Microsoft Certified Professional -Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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June 22nd, 2010 2:52am

Can't find it. Do you have a specific directory. Windows folder=19GB Program Files=4GB Program Files x86=4G rest of folders =1GB My partition is 65Gb - 28Gb= 37GB should be free. I am at 10GB. 27Gb of log files?? I disabled shadow copy and erased previous versions and I got nothing.
June 22nd, 2010 2:57am

Found this post which explains what is happening. Winsxs folder in Windows Directory and log files for WSUS services in Inetpub. http://simultaneouspancakes.com/Lessons/2010/01/13/recovering-hidden-disk-space-used-on-sbs-2008-c-partitions/
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June 22nd, 2010 3:36am

Good to hear you found it. Regards, Dave Patrick .... Microsoft Certified Professional -Microsoft MVP [Windows]
June 22nd, 2010 3:47am

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