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Never dealt with WSUS. Inherited this SBS 2011 Standard &nbsp;server. &nbsp;I use GFI for patching. &nbsp;Don't want / need wsus. But there's a folder c:\wsus on there. &nbsp;not sure if wsus is running / downloading things. how do I free up that space?<br />
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Interesting - the latest files in this c:\wsus folder are dated 1/11/14.... &nbsp;except for 2 files - susdb.mdf and susdb_log.ldf are dated 1/18/15 and 1 of those is 12GB. &nbsp;so something is still running? &nbsp;but not downloading new files?<br />
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what's the right way to free up the hard drive space when not using wsus?
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Never dealt with WSUS. Inherited this SBS 2011 Standard  server.  I use GFI for patching.  Don't want / need wsus. But there's a folder c:\wsus on there.  not sure if wsus is running / downloading things. how do I free up that space?

Interesting - the latest files in this c:\wsus folder are dated 1/11/14....  except for 2 files - susdb.mdf and susdb_log.ldf are dated 1/18/15 and 1 of those is 12GB.  so something is still running?  but not downloading new files?

what's the right way to free up the hard drive space when not using wsus?

WSUS - not using it but there's a folder taking 40GB of data

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