system volume information files deletions

Try
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takeown /f "C:\System Volume Information" /R /A

then

cacls "C:\System Volume Information" /T /C /E /P Administrators:F

and now just delete it by a simple command

del "C:\System Volume Information\Sample File.txt"

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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5297416/how-to-delete-a-file-inside-system-volume-information-folder-in-windows-server-2

If you want to delete entire folders then use

rd /s c:\folder  etc.

is it safe to delete the system volume information files.

also del "C:\System Volume Information\Sample File.txt"   i can't even get into the folder after doing all the command above to see which file i want to delete.

again thanks for the help.

you can use the disk cleanup wizard and/or go into control panel / system /System Protection / and change the settings there

or use vssadmin http://indrajitc.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/reclaiming-disk-space-from-system-volume-information/

actually sorry its on our F: drive which is on a SAN so when I ran takeown /f "f:\System Volume Information" /R /A

i get access denied.

use vssadmin instead

sorry i have never used vssadmin before. And kinda confused what do do with that command.

And are the system volume files consider a shadow copy? I thought it was more of a system restore point. Also when i do look at the show copies in my computer management shared folders my shadow files looks good.

Yes shadow copies  are part of the svi .. not just system restore points.

please read the article that I linked to.

I have read the article but need a little bit of a guidance,

my current drive is F: that has the system Volume information.

it is currently 425gb with 46gb of free  and about 10gb of that is my log files for my exchange mailstores.

my question is when i run vssadmin what would my settings be? Will it erase all my data on that drive or will it erase only the sys vol info.

for example, will the below give me back 300gb of space?

vssadmin resize shadowstorage /on=F: /For=F: /Maxsize=300GB

thanks again for the help.

Cannot say. Back up your data first.

it will delete the older information (shadow copies/restore points) until it gets down to the size you configured

so this command will only delete shadow copies/restore points only? And no other data on that drive.

thanks for the help?

Yes just what is in the SVI directory

I finally was able to do the command and it said successful. But didn't didn't do anything to the drive. Do i need to restart the server or any services after?