My C drive on my SBS 2008 box is filling up rapidly. The server is spitting
out hourly alerts that the disk has reached its notification for low disk
space threshold. It's filling up at an average rate of about 1 MB of
something every hour.

The volume is 80GB and has just under 6GB free. Doing a quick tot-up of the
files and folders on the drive, the space occupied comes to about 35GB max.
If my math is correct, this means that 39GB is filled up with something that
isn't showing up. I know people have had issues with IIS7 logs, but I can't
see anything unusually large there.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

An alert was detected on your network. Further investigation into the issue
is recommended.





Computer: *******

Date/Time generated: 02/08/2009 18:12:31

Title: Percent Free Disk Space

Source: Performance Threshold

Description:

The free disk space on this computer has dropped below its notification for
low disk space threshold.





Volume Name: C:

Free Space: 6292832256

Volume Size: 86234886144





Troubleshooting suggestions:



1) If the issue is being reported on the server running Windows SBS,
consider freeing up the disk space by reconfiguring its disk using the
storage tasks available under the "Backup and Storage" tab in the Windows
SBS Console.

2) If the issue is being reported on a client computer, consider freeing up
the disk space by using the Disk Cleanup and removing any unneccesary files
on the computer.

I use TreeSize to see what is taking up space on systems:

http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml

Be sure your folder options are set to show hidden and system files first so
you get accurate results.

How much RAM is in this system? Have you used the wizards to move Exchange
/ SharePoint / User shares to a different drive?

--

Chad A. Gross
http://www.msmvps.com/blogs/cgross


"Allistair Lomax" <allistairlomax@newsgroup> wrote in message
news:#Ccl6k5EKHA.3708@newsgroup

> My C drive on my SBS 2008 box is filling up rapidly. The server is
> spitting out hourly alerts that the disk has reached its notification for
> low disk space threshold. It's filling up at an average rate of about 1 MB
> of something every hour.
>
> The volume is 80GB and has just under 6GB free. Doing a quick tot-up of
> the files and folders on the drive, the space occupied comes to about
> 35GB max. If my math is correct, this means that 39GB is filled up with
> something that isn't showing up. I know people have had issues with IIS7
> logs, but I can't see anything unusually large there.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> An alert was detected on your network. Further investigation into the
> issue is recommended.
>
>
>
> Computer: *******
>
> Date/Time generated: 02/08/2009 18:12:31
>
> Title: Percent Free Disk Space
>
> Source: Performance Threshold
>
> Description:
>
> The free disk space on this computer has dropped below its notification
> for low disk space threshold.
>
>
>
>
>
> Volume Name: C:
>
> Free Space: 6292832256
>
> Volume Size: 86234886144
>
>
>
>
>
> Troubleshooting suggestions:
>
>
>
> 1) If the issue is being reported on the server running Windows SBS,
> consider freeing up the disk space by reconfiguring its disk using the
> storage tasks available under the "Backup and Storage" tab in the Windows
> SBS Console.
>
> 2) If the issue is being reported on a client computer, consider freeing
> up the disk space by using the Disk Cleanup and removing any unneccesary
> files on the computer.
>

Did you check the Shadow copies, Page File, etc. ?

--
Moloy Tandon [MSFT]
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.


"Allistair Lomax" <allistairlomax@newsgroup> wrote in message
news:#Ccl6k5EKHA.3708@newsgroup

> My C drive on my SBS 2008 box is filling up rapidly. The server is
> spitting out hourly alerts that the disk has reached its notification for
> low disk space threshold. It's filling up at an average rate of about 1 MB
> of something every hour.
>
> The volume is 80GB and has just under 6GB free. Doing a quick tot-up of
> the files and folders on the drive, the space occupied comes to about
> 35GB max. If my math is correct, this means that 39GB is filled up with
> something that isn't showing up. I know people have had issues with IIS7
> logs, but I can't see anything unusually large there.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> An alert was detected on your network. Further investigation into the
> issue is recommended.
>
>
>
> Computer: *******
>
> Date/Time generated: 02/08/2009 18:12:31
>
> Title: Percent Free Disk Space
>
> Source: Performance Threshold
>
> Description:
>
> The free disk space on this computer has dropped below its notification
> for low disk space threshold.
>
>
>
>
>
> Volume Name: C:
>
> Free Space: 6292832256
>
> Volume Size: 86234886144
>
>
>
>
>
> Troubleshooting suggestions:
>
>
>
> 1) If the issue is being reported on the server running Windows SBS,
> consider freeing up the disk space by reconfiguring its disk using the
> storage tasks available under the "Backup and Storage" tab in the Windows
> SBS Console.
>
> 2) If the issue is being reported on a client computer, consider freeing
> up the disk space by using the Disk Cleanup and removing any unneccesary
> files on the computer.
>

Looking at pagefile.sys, revealed it was a staggering 16.8GB in size, so
there's half the hidden harddrive space consumption, for start. I'm still
investing the other things, so thanks for the response and suggestions.

Al
"Moloy Tandon [MSFT]" <moloy@newsgroup> wrote in message
news:Oc7gRzCFKHA.1540@newsgroup

> Did you check the Shadow copies, Page File, etc. ?
>
> --
> Moloy Tandon [MSFT]
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
>
>
> "Allistair Lomax" <allistairlomax@newsgroup> wrote in message
> news:#Ccl6k5EKHA.3708@newsgroup

>> My C drive on my SBS 2008 box is filling up rapidly. The server is
>> spitting out hourly alerts that the disk has reached its notification for
>> low disk space threshold. It's filling up at an average rate of about 1
>> MB of something every hour.
>>
>> The volume is 80GB and has just under 6GB free. Doing a quick tot-up of
>> the files and folders on the drive, the space occupied comes to about
>> 35GB max. If my math is correct, this means that 39GB is filled up with
>> something that isn't showing up. I know people have had issues with IIS7
>> logs, but I can't see anything unusually large there.
>>
>> Anyone have any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> An alert was detected on your network. Further investigation into the
>> issue is recommended.
>>
>>
>>
>> Computer: *******
>>
>> Date/Time generated: 02/08/2009 18:12:31
>>
>> Title: Percent Free Disk Space
>>
>> Source: Performance Threshold
>>
>> Description:
>>
>> The free disk space on this computer has dropped below its notification
>> for low disk space threshold.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Volume Name: C:
>>
>> Free Space: 6292832256
>>
>> Volume Size: 86234886144
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Troubleshooting suggestions:
>>
>>
>>
>> 1) If the issue is being reported on the server running Windows SBS,
>> consider freeing up the disk space by reconfiguring its disk using the
>> storage tasks available under the "Backup and Storage" tab in the
>> Windows SBS Console.
>>
>> 2) If the issue is being reported on a client computer, consider freeing
>> up the disk space by using the Disk Cleanup and removing any unneccesary
>> files on the computer.
>>

The server has 16GB of RAM. The Exchange and SharePoint shares are all on
the C drive.

Thanks for the suggestions, Chad.

Al
"Chad A. Gross" <chad.gross@newsgroup> wrote in message
news:OiPGDs5EKHA.4316@newsgroup

>I use TreeSize to see what is taking up space on systems:
>
> http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml
>
> Be sure your folder options are set to show hidden and system files first
> so you get accurate results.
>
> How much RAM is in this system? Have you used the wizards to move
> Exchange / SharePoint / User shares to a different drive?
>
> --
>
> Chad A. Gross
> http://www.msmvps.com/blogs/cgross
>
>
> "Allistair Lomax" <allistairlomax@newsgroup> wrote in message
> news:#Ccl6k5EKHA.3708@newsgroup

>> My C drive on my SBS 2008 box is filling up rapidly. The server is
>> spitting out hourly alerts that the disk has reached its notification for
>> low disk space threshold. It's filling up at an average rate of about 1
>> MB of something every hour.
>>
>> The volume is 80GB and has just under 6GB free. Doing a quick tot-up of
>> the files and folders on the drive, the space occupied comes to about
>> 35GB max. If my math is correct, this means that 39GB is filled up with
>> something that isn't showing up. I know people have had issues with IIS7
>> logs, but I can't see anything unusually large there.
>>
>> Anyone have any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> An alert was detected on your network. Further investigation into the
>> issue is recommended.
>>
>>
>>
>> Computer: *******
>>
>> Date/Time generated: 02/08/2009 18:12:31
>>
>> Title: Percent Free Disk Space
>>
>> Source: Performance Threshold
>>
>> Description:
>>
>> The free disk space on this computer has dropped below its notification
>> for low disk space threshold.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Volume Name: C:
>>
>> Free Space: 6292832256
>>
>> Volume Size: 86234886144
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Troubleshooting suggestions:
>>
>>
>>
>> 1) If the issue is being reported on the server running Windows SBS,
>> consider freeing up the disk space by reconfiguring its disk using the
>> storage tasks available under the "Backup and Storage" tab in the
>> Windows SBS Console.
>>
>> 2) If the issue is being reported on a client computer, consider freeing
>> up the disk space by using the Disk Cleanup and removing any unneccesary
>> files on the computer.
>>