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system drives - remaining storage
what kinds of thing consume a system drive on a windows server? From what i can see most our file servers have a system drive which holds the OS files and software files, then their is a pagefile drive, and then a data drive. I have noticed some of the system drives have a smallish allocation, and are often running at 80% of capacity. OS is not my area of responsibility, but what kinds of things consume further space on system drives? I assume patches take up some space, but I wondered what else? Or once you have all the OS and software installed does the storage used/remaining remain pretty static. For example we have 3GB free on one server, I wondered what kind of acitons on the server could consume that space in one go?
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i dont think its specific to WinSXS and logging. XP/2003 both have those folders as well. the older systems made it easier to remove update backup files, but even then it wasn't like they took up GB of space.
look at the installation media - xp/2003 install from CD, 2008 and later install from DVD - their source files are more than 6x greater in size than 2003. consider the pagefiles, that in 2003, the installation source was not cached in the install (it is in 2008 and later) and all the other added features, capabilities, and changes and you need a LOT more space.
look at the installation media - xp/2003 install from CD, 2008 and later install from DVD - their source files are more than 6x greater in size than 2003. consider the pagefiles, that in 2003, the installation source was not cached in the install (it is in 2008 and later) and all the other added features, capabilities, and changes and you need a LOT more space.
they do take up more space though with 2008 onwards - my current system which is 2012 R2 is over 6GB
this is related to the size of the operating system - as you rightly point out the install is simply that much bigger taking up an entire DVD now rather than the 600MB CD for server 2003
this is related to the size of the operating system - as you rightly point out the install is simply that much bigger taking up an entire DVD now rather than the 600MB CD for server 2003
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