Gerard's codebase: OS - Getting back server disk space

Gerard's codebase

This is a personal repository of code snippets and information.

Over the years I have generated lots of little sub programs and stored away acres of useful code snippets. The problem is always to locate them.

Even more time wasting is forgetting how to do simple things when you havnt developed in an environment for a few years (or even a few months)

My new years resolution is to start putting them up in a common place as I produce them. (thanks google)

They are handy for me and, with a bit of a clean up and documentation, they might be handy for others if they wander in here.

Gerard 2008

Monday, November 3, 2008

OS - Getting back server disk space

Disk drives filling up - here are some things to look for

Unaccounted couple of gig missing?

1. This can be your pagefile.sys (virtual memory) You can move it to another disk or - for a performance increase - split it across multiple disks (if they are on separate spindles) - there is a good article on this at http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/WindowsGeneralWeb/RAMVirtualMemoryPageFileEtc.htm

In Explorer go to Tools -> Options -> View and make sure "Hide protected OS files" is unchecked and "Show Hidden files" is selected
Look in your c:\ directory and you can see the system files
Go to My Computer -> Properties -> Advanced Tab ->Performance options -> Virtual Memory
Change the size and location of the virtual memory

2. Your disk may be fragmented or have errors. There are tools to correct this. Go to explorer -> right click -> Tools tab

Log Files
Windows log files are located C:\WINNT\system32\LogFiles. Clear out all but the last month

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Properties -> Tools tab

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