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W2008 - C Drive almost out of space - options?

I'm having to look after a W2008 server which has a C drive configured to be 20Gb and which is down to 1.5Gb free. On current trends it will run out of space altogether in the future. The growth in space used is largely attributable to system…
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free disk vs available disk

what is the difference between available and free disk space? see image below: http://alvarberglind.se/disk.png
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disable .recycle feature for samba shares

I had a pretty big scare when my company file server filled up. after tacking down the source I discovered that there is a .recycle folder that keeps ALL the files ever deleted (which is also hidden) Is there anyway to disable this feature? or…
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Expand disk space on Ubuntu 10.04 (VMWare Guest)

I need to resize the disk space of an ubuntu guest in VMWare Workstation. After using the expand disk utility in vmware workstation, I need to do some linux magic to resize the parition. I have searched and found a lot of posts about resizing it.…
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Best places to free space on Windows?

Prompted by Adam.. I would like your suggestions as to freeing up space on a Windows machine. Yes, yes, I know disk space is cheap but sometimes, you have older machines that just need more space and it's easier to free up space than to have to go…
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Notification for Disk-Space Shortage Issue in Server

I have a ubuntu server, and facing frequent space issue, i.e. logs are eating up lot of disk space. So, I want a check to be applied, so that whenever there is less than 5 GB free disk space, I should get an e-mail notification, so that I can delete…
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Lazy disk backup for a ramdisk on Linux?

Quick and dirty summary: I want something like a write cache that drains only when the system isn't busy. I want something along the lines of this question RAM disk and physical RAID with a slight twist. For a particular build I'm doing often, I…
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Identifying change to disk block level

I have a problem :) I would like to identify how much change there has been at block level to either an entire disk or a particular file. Ideally there is a tool that runs a scan on a disk or a file and produces "fingerprints" for each block and…
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What is the purpose of elasticsearch logs? How to manage them?

As I understand indexes(or data) are being stored in /var/lib/elasticsearch by default, this folder contains nodes with 0 and 1 folders and overall size of these folders is 376M. The logs are being stored in /var/log/elasticsearch -rw-r--r-- 1…
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No space left on device in spite partition is not 100%

I am trying to do the following on my Linux machine CentOS release 5.8 cd /var/APPstoreldap/Home touch test touch: cannot touch `test': No space left on device so I verified the partition disk space capacity in order to understand if …
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Hyper-V Requirements, disk partitioning

My rule of thumb for a physical server was fast random access disk (VelociRaptor/SSD) for OS, and large disks for data (e.g. WD Caviar). How does that look for a Hyper-V that should run two virtual machines (File Server+Intranet, Dynamics CRM)?…
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Next-gen filesystems: disk space usage log?

From time to time I run into problems when server hard disks (Linux) fill up quickly with lots of small files. When this happens I have to try to figure out how much space is being taken up and where the files are that are taking up the space. This…
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Solaris du --max-depth Equivalent

I would like to do the Linux equivalent of du --max-depth=1 on Solaris. I cannot find an equivalent in the man pages. Any alternatives?
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How do I remove Windows Update uninstall files on Windows Server 2008?

I'm running Windows Server 2008 Standard running in VMware. It has 2 disks: system disk: 16 GB data disk: 500 MB I installed Visual Studio 2008 SP1 + MSDN and some small tools and libraries that don't take much space. Over time the system disk's…
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Decreasing Root Disk Size of an "EBS Boot" AMI on EC2

So I have followed Eric's wonderful article here: http://alestic.com/2009/12/ec2-ebs-boot-resize This was the code basically that helped me increase the default size of the AMI: ec2-run-sintances ami-ID -n 1 --key keypair.pem --block-device-mapping…
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