Running out of disk space

[teash]

Hello,

We are down to 16 MB of free disk space on the primary partition on the hard drive. We have 2 drives, each with 2 partitions (one is used for secondary backup storage).

I have deleted all I could, over the past few years more and more images,data and products have been added and its full.

If it was my computer I would just redo the entire site because I wouldn't care about the "downtime" of my home computer.

However, I do not want to take the server off line because its used by the customer service dept/puchasing dept as well as the internet users who visits our site.

There is more room on the other partition and I just want to "steal" this. Basically to give me another 5 gigs worth of space. (Which doubles my current capacity).

I guess I asked all these questions not because I am not familiar with disk partitions, but I don't know how any changes will affect the c:\INetPub directory. The code/system I inherited from the guys before me is rather "spaghetti" like (then again, I am not real Italian).

So I ask if there any ways I can add more space, with minimum side effects?

Thanks,
Tim

 

[itsp1965]

First off, have you tried moving your pagefile to the second partition. Also in order to avoid running out of disk space if your server is also used as print server, you can move the location of the spooler directory.
In regards to C:\INETPUB, this is the location of where IIS installs it's files. If this server is being used as a IIS webserver, you can create virtual directories on the other partition and move some your content there (be careful here, if you have code/web pages pointing to specific locations on c. This should buy you some time until you update your storage.

 

[electronicsfreak]

This may or may not be of much help. I currently use win2k pro not server so im not even sure if this location exist. But make sure hidden files and folders are showing and os system files are hidden. Anyways what im about to show is the second temp folder that ive noticed alot of people dont seem to know about. If you know about it the ignore this. Just posting it for it might be of some help for space. anyways location is as follows if it exist on there lol

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp

just substitute the administrator name for each account name that is used. Ive never used server nor do I know much about it just trying to see if i could possibly help. So if this does not help I apologize.

 

[teash]

Probably doesn't change much, but we run
MS BackOffice Windows NT, not exactly Windows 2000. But I assume the op sys doesn't change much of information you guys posted.


itsp1965:

I have a 525 MB pagefile, so this would help a lot if I could move it. I also believe the server is also being used as a print server. This is how what made me take a look at the disk space in the first place. A employee asked me why he was getting a "not enough space left to print error".

electronicsfreak:

I forgot about the other temp folder, but I don't have a second one on the server. Thanks for the input. Someone will be able to use it someday


Thanks for the input guys, I am going to go figure out how to move the pagefile with out bringing down the house!


Tim

 

[teash]

Hey guys, I just checked some virtual memory settings and it looks like there is a pagefile for every partition.

Can I still move the one on the bootable (and inetpub) partition to another partition?

Is there a program that will allow me to "unpartition" a few gigs from one and then add it to another paritition?

Well, ok.. I know there is a program, but does anyone have any recommendations? Perferably a free program, but I am all ears on any!

 

[itsp1965]

Teash, change your virtual memory settings to leave the pagefile only on the second partition. You can't move C:\INETPUB without causing yourself a lot of headaches since it is the default location for IIS. You can perform a special install of IIS5 to another partition using the sysocmgr utility. Also if this server is also a print server have you considered moving printing services to another box (doesn't have to be a server class machine). It seems you already have way too many things going on that server.
Also since a lot of developers seem to be using this server (and I have seen this from first hand experience). Can you check for duplicate copies of tools/utilities/old app installs/documentation and have them archived somewhere. I had a situation where developers took up 2GB of my disk space on waste such as this. Good luck

 

[teash]

There are 4 partitions, on one 80 gig hd.

c: Boot, Inetpub(3 websites, intranet apps), Printer. etc.
d: Program files
e: Datastore
f: Archieve


c: has 15 mb left,
d: has 4 gb left
e: has 10 gb left
f has 20 gb left

There is really nothing more to delete on parition c.
There is a pagefile on each of these paritions.

 

[teash]

We ended up buying Paragon Hard Disk Manager 6.0 Professional for 180 dollars. Worked like a charm! Very nice program. Took forever, but worked perfectly.