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Kris - 29 Jul 2004 02:40 GMT

I am having a problem with the disk space on my server. When I walk into
work, I will have 10MB. At lunch, I will have 300KB. At night I will have
700KB. It's not a virus that is causing this. Although I have not been
able to update my antivirus software for about a month due to the low disk
space. This is driving me absolutely crazy! I have removed any Windows
components that are not needed and have even tried to change the pagefile to
a different partition. Nothing is helping it. Everything I try, something
will eat up the disk space.

What am I missing? I am not even sure what to do a search on to find fixes
for this problem.... Any suggestions?

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David H. Lipman - 29 Jul 2004 03:02 GMT

Print jobs and temp files from processes can eat up disk space dynamically. Rule of thumb
is NEVER let the disk fall below 20% of the total disk space. Therefore if the "C:" drive
is 2GB, you should never let the drive fall below 400MB free disk space to allow "breathing
space".

Dave

| I am having a problem with the disk space on my server. When I walk into
| work, I will have 10MB. At lunch, I will have 300KB. At night I will have
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| What am I missing? I am not even sure what to do a search on to find fixes
| for this problem.... Any suggestions?

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disk0nek - 16 Aug 2004 11:18 GMT

PLease give us also basic idea like what are the App
Running on your server!

Is it a mail server?

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Darryn Ross - 29 Jul 2004 03:16 GMT

I had the same issue a little while ago, this is what i did...

First check and adjust your Security Log Settings to purge after a certain
time period or file size... and

if you are running DHCP then delete the log files it creates and change the
log settings here too.

probably to a search for all files *temp*.* or *log*.* or *.log

regards

Darryn

> I am having a problem with the disk space on my server. When I walk into
> work, I will have 10MB. At lunch, I will have 300KB. At night I will have
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> What am I missing? I am not even sure what to do a search on to find fixes
> for this problem.... Any suggestions?

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Kris - 29 Jul 2004 03:40 GMT

Thank you both for the suggestions. I will defiantly try these at work
tomorrow!

Have a couple more questions.....

I have been clearing up some log files that are back from 2000 and most of
them are DHCP logs. How do I go about changing the log settings within
DHCP? Through the DHCP Scope?

I never did think about the Security Log Settings. I did change the Temp.
Internet Files Folder size to the bare min. since no one browses the
Internet on the Server.

Thank you both so very much!!!

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