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Low Disk Space Alert
Hi,
After our SBS server has been running for about 2 weeks without a restart, it begins to have an issue where it will start emailing me Low Disk Space alerts for our C Drive which say the drive is running low on space. The space will then begin to shrink, sometimes very quickly (resulting in very frequent emails every 20-40 minutes) to sometimes being very slowly, resulting in about 2-3 emails a day). I have copied and pasted the email into the Code Snippet section for you to see. This error just started happening for no reason and I cannot figure out what is causing it. I do know that when I had changed the port setting on the Sharepoint site in IIS (I know I did it incorrectly, but we don't really use it and I had to change the port so I could install Symantec BackupExec) and originally made it start having the very frequent emails. I then decided to uninstall Sharepoint (since we don't use it at all) and then the problem went away for a few weeks before now starting up this Wednesday).
Also, I do know that although it says we have 445MB left right now, as soon as I restart the server it will go up to about 1.7 -2.1 GB (which I also don't understand).
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Jeff
After our SBS server has been running for about 2 weeks without a restart, it begins to have an issue where it will start emailing me Low Disk Space alerts for our C Drive which say the drive is running low on space. The space will then begin to shrink, sometimes very quickly (resulting in very frequent emails every 20-40 minutes) to sometimes being very slowly, resulting in about 2-3 emails a day). I have copied and pasted the email into the Code Snippet section for you to see. This error just started happening for no reason and I cannot figure out what is causing it. I do know that when I had changed the port setting on the Sharepoint site in IIS (I know I did it incorrectly, but we don't really use it and I had to change the port so I could install Symantec BackupExec) and originally made it start having the very frequent emails. I then decided to uninstall Sharepoint (since we don't use it at all) and then the problem went away for a few weeks before now starting up this Wednesday).
Also, I do know that although it says we have 445MB left right now, as soon as I restart the server it will go up to about 1.7 -2.1 GB (which I also don't understand).
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Jeff
Alert on AAAD-SBS at 1/31/2009 11:02:11 PM
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: C:
Free Disk Space: 445.000000. MB
% Free Disk Space: 1.738078.%
You can disable this alert or change its threshold by using the Change Alert Notifications task in the Server Management Monitoring and Reporting taskpad.
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check out where the space is with treesize (Google it) and clean out temp files and rubbish with cleanup! (google that as well it from steven gould)
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It appears that the largest folder on C right now is WSUS at 5GB (i am unsure what this is), but also we have 1.04GB left right now even though I have not changed anything and last night it only had 445MB. I also have not received any low disk space warnings since the one I posted on the question. I googled treeview and did not know what to find.
We do use the SBS server as a print server, but the emails usually are sent when nobody is even in the office (like 3 - 6AM), and our printed documents are SMALL (usually 1 page without graphics) documents.
We do use the SBS server as a print server, but the emails usually are sent when nobody is even in the office (like 3 - 6AM), and our printed documents are SMALL (usually 1 page without graphics) documents.
Ok, this look like WSUS is taking up alot of your current space on the drive and should be moved to a data volume (if you have one).
If you would like to read up more about WSUS, try this link:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc708619.aspx
In general, it is where SBS will download all your client PC updates (xp/vista windows updates - depending on your selction) and stores them on your server for local distribution. You can move these files to another location or login to WSUS and delete them if they are outdated.
Hope this helps.
If you would like to read up more about WSUS, try this link:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc708619.aspx
In general, it is where SBS will download all your client PC updates (xp/vista windows updates - depending on your selction) and stores them on your server for local distribution. You can move these files to another location or login to WSUS and delete them if they are outdated.
Hope this helps.
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Mark,
I do have another drive which I can move them to on the ssame server. How do I move the folder and reconfigure WSUS to know of the new location?
I do have another drive which I can move them to on the ssame server. How do I move the folder and reconfigure WSUS to know of the new location?
Change the WSUS store by following the instrucitons here...
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc708480.aspx
or possibly a registry hack as per...
http://www.wsus.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=7399
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc708480.aspx
or possibly a registry hack as per...
http://www.wsus.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=7399
Jeffschick -
If you read the link I posted in my first comment, I provide instructions for moving WSUS data - and just about everything else.
If you read the link I posted in my first comment, I provide instructions for moving WSUS data - and just about everything else.
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Thanks for the link, Lee!
I have followed your instructions and am trying to run the movecontent right now, but now I am getting Fatal Error: <unable to Find Resource:> WsusSvcCantStop
I originally ran it and mistyped a > instead of a period and said WSUSUTIL>EXE MOVECONTENT D:\WSUS D:\move.log -- and it did not say anything and just skipped to a new line
Then, I tried running again and got some errors. I do not know where it currently is now storing the updates, but the C:\WSUS folder on the C Drive still is 5GB and I am getting the low disk space errors. Can I Delete this folder? The D:\WSUS folder is only 1GB.
I have attached a PDF of the screenshot if you could please help me figure out what is going on and what my next steps are. Thank you!!
WSUS-Move-Screenshot.pdf
I have followed your instructions and am trying to run the movecontent right now, but now I am getting Fatal Error: <unable to Find Resource:> WsusSvcCantStop
I originally ran it and mistyped a > instead of a period and said WSUSUTIL>EXE MOVECONTENT D:\WSUS D:\move.log -- and it did not say anything and just skipped to a new line
Then, I tried running again and got some errors. I do not know where it currently is now storing the updates, but the C:\WSUS folder on the C Drive still is 5GB and I am getting the low disk space errors. Can I Delete this folder? The D:\WSUS folder is only 1GB.
I have attached a PDF of the screenshot if you could please help me figure out what is going on and what my next steps are. Thank you!!
WSUS-Move-Screenshot.pdf
It was a little hard to understand, and in the end I am not sure if I correctly completed the task because there was never any response after I attempted the proposed solution and posted my result. Thank you though for your help with the link to the acceptable solution.
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Small Business Server (SBS) is a line of server operating systems targeted at small businesses by bundling the operating system with a number of other Microsoft products that would normally need to be purchased or licensed separately. The most notable inclusions are Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint and ISA/TMG (Microsoft's firewall and proxy server).