Partition Size Issues on Windows Server 2003
I inherited a Windows Server 2003 that had been repurposed as a terminal server. The C drive is only 12 GB and I'm constantly having issues with lack of storage...no surprise here I suppose.
I'd like to avoid rebuilding the server.
The curious thing is that I am only picking up about 8.4 GB of storage on the C drive but the OS is telling me I only have 300 MB of storage available. Not sure where the other 3 GB is. The page file is on the D drive and there is no shadowing turned on. I get this result through My Computer and TreeSize Free.
Any idea where the additional 3GB of space is?
Looking at the Dell SAS RAID Manager I see that the drive is configured as one large RAID 1(150GB). Windows reports that C and D are on the same basic disk. Dell has a partion moving tool. Has anyone used their tool for this? Is there an economical commercial tool that you would recommend?
Thanks.
I'd like to avoid rebuilding the server.
The curious thing is that I am only picking up about 8.4 GB of storage on the C drive but the OS is telling me I only have 300 MB of storage available. Not sure where the other 3 GB is. The page file is on the D drive and there is no shadowing turned on. I get this result through My Computer and TreeSize Free.
Any idea where the additional 3GB of space is?
Looking at the Dell SAS RAID Manager I see that the drive is configured as one large RAID 1(150GB). Windows reports that C and D are on the same basic disk. Dell has a partion moving tool. Has anyone used their tool for this? Is there an economical commercial tool that you would recommend?
Thanks.
Ernie Beek
You could have a look at gparted: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ I am quite happy about that, even when working with servers.
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootit-next-generation.htm
works for me...easy to use. Do NOT install it though. Also make sure you have a full backup first no matter what tool you use.
works for me...easy to use. Do NOT install it though. Also make sure you have a full backup first no matter what tool you use.
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Thank you. I'm looking at leew's article now. Do you know of any explanation of why Windows reports 12.0 GB of disk, Treesize free shows 8.5 GB of files. I would think there would be 3 GB of space free?
are you showing hidden and system files? Are you using a backup solution? I found some files that were created by netbackup pro, they were hidden ans system files. It was something to do with using Netbackups shadow copy rather than VSS.
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Yes I'm showing both hidden and system. This is a terminal server, in an SBS 2003 environment. Do you think it could be the offline caching of the "My Documents" files that are stored in the Windows folder? I can't find them yet but when I looked at defragmenting the C drive it pointed to files stored in a MyDocuments share that I haven't been able to look at.