Low Disk Space in the installation drive

Dear all,
One of our test server, is running out of space in the installation drive.
Do we have any standard jobs/Tcodes to reduce/shrink the disk space of installation drive.
Please share your inputs,
Regards,
Younus

Hi,
Thanks Mark for directing the question to the right group.
Elaborating the issue: It is a test PI server and it has been installed in the D drive of the machine.
It was only one month ago the server was installed and now the system shows the error "Low disk space in D drive"
10-12 GB of free space was there earlier and even the server didn't have many messages going through it in this period.
Please help me with your inputs.
Thanks
Younus

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I have a HP Pavilion G6 model number:2005AX .Recently I have been receiving an error message as in low disk space(only 1 GB free of 20 GB) in D drive but there are no unwanted files in the drive .I am worried that it might cause any problems in the future.Please help what i should do to increase the disk space in the recovery drive.I have included a screen shot of my recovery drive files.

pooji wrote:
I have a HP Pavilion G6 model number:2005AX .Recently I have been receiving an error message as in low disk space(only 1 GB free of 20 GB) in D drive but there are no unwanted files in the drive .I am worried that it might cause any problems in the future.Please help what i should do to increase the disk space in the recovery drive.I have included a screen shot of my recovery drive files.
That normally occurs because someone has turned on system protection for the partition. I can't see your image just yet.
Check to make sure that has not happened.
The following image is how the system protection window should look
The following image is what you should see in your recovery partition if you have file options to show protected files. Anyhting else should not be there.
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We have many SQL & Sharepoint servers running on windows server. I need some Powershell script to get the low disk space on those servers and it should send an mail alert saying "Disc d:\ have less than threshold 15% free space".
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$to_address = "[email protected]"
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$smtp_user = ""
$smtp_pass = ""
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$background_color = "rgb(140,166,193)" # can be in rgb format (rgb(0,0,0)) or hex format (#FFFFFF)
$server_name_font = "Arial"
$server_name_font_size = "20px"
$server_name_bg_color = "rgb(77,108,145)" # can be in rgb format (rgb(0,0,0)) or hex format (#FFFFFF)
$heading_font = "Arial"
$heading_font_size = "14px"
$heading_name_bg_color = "rgb(95,130,169)" # can be in rgb format (rgb(0,0,0)) or hex format (#FFFFFF)
$data_font = "Arial"
$data_font_size = "11px"
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$low_space = "rgb(251,251,0)" # low space is less then or equal to 10 GB
$medium_space = "rgb(249,124,0)" # medium space is less then or equal to 100 GB
#### NO CHANGES SHOULD BE MADE BELOW UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING
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$date = Get-Date -UFormat "%Y%m%d"
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$html_file
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[string]$drive_size + ' KB'
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$drive_size = $size / 1MB
$drive_size = [Math]::Round($drive_size, 2)
[string]$drive_size + ' MB'
}ElseIf ($size -lt 1TB){
$drive_size = $size / 1GB
$drive_size = [Math]::Round($drive_size, 2)
[string]$drive_size + ' GB'
}Else{
$drive_size = $size / 1TB
$drive_size = [Math]::Round($drive_size, 2)
[string]$drive_size + ' TB'
# Create the header and footer contents of the html page for output
$html_header = '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Server Drive Space</title>
<style type="text/css">
.serverName { text-align:center; font-family:"' + $server_name_font + '"; font-size:' + $server_name_font_size + `
'; font-weight:bold; background-color: ' + $server_name_bg_color + '; border: 1px solid black; width: 150px; }
.headings { text-align:center; font-family:"' + $heading_font + '"; font-size:' + $heading_font_size + `
'; font-weight:bold; background-color: ' + $heading_name_bg_color + '; border: 1px solid black; width: 150px; }
.data { font-family:"' + $data_font + '"; font-size:' + $data_font_size + '; border: 1px solid black; width: 150px; }
#dataTable { border: 1px solid black; border-collapse:collapse; }
body { background-color: ' + $background_color + '; }
#legend { border: 1px solid black; ; right:500px; top:10px; }
</style>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">

</script>
</head>
<body>'
$html_footer = '</body>
</html>'
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Add-Content $html_file $html_header
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Get-Content $server_file |`
ForEach-Object {
# Get the hostname of the machine
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$total_space = $drive.Size
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<Table><tr><td style="font-size:12px">Less then or equal to 5 % free space</td><td bgcolor="' + $very_low_space + '" width="10px"></td></tr>
<tr><td style="font-size:12px">Less then or equal to 10 % free space</td><td bgcolor="' + $low_space + '" width="10px"></td></tr>
<tr><td style="font-size:12px">Less then or equal to 15 % free space</td><td bgcolor="' + $medium_space + '" width="10px"></td></tr>
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$mail.Body = "The diskspace report file is attached."
$mail.Attachments.Add($att)
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$att.Dispose()
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yes i figured it out! after about an hour of looking... your computer has been automatically backing itself up every month, just go in and delete a few back ups!! Go computer, hp tools drive E, and click on the name of your computer in their, then click manage space used by this backup, and click view back ups and delete the ones you dont want!!! by the way they are dated thankfully. but its that simple, hope this helped.

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Unable to perform a V2V to a CSV in Virtual Machine Manager if there is insufficient disk space on the local drive

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Hi, this morning upon starting up my computer the magnifying glass was hovering over the HP Support Assistant icon and usually that means it is checking for updates etc... but I noticed it turned into a yellow exclamation mark so I clicked on it and opened up HP Support Assistant. The exclamation mark was now in the "updates and tune-ups" and said there were "recommended messages available." Upon clicking this the exclamation is now on the HP messages tab and upon clicking that I am taken to a notification that says: "Low Disk Space on Primary Drive C:" So I click on it to find out more information and it says that I am running out of free disk space on my C drive and that I need to perform a disk cleanup etc...
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My computer is an hp G60 121WM, which is Vista Home Premium running windows Vista 32 bit OS. I messed up while in 'backup and restore' and sent the backup to the partitioned drive (D) used for system recovery. Is there any way to access this drive or remove the mess I sent there? It won't let me in by the simple route of trying to open it from the 'computer' dialog. I can't use backup and restore now, and every time I boot up the computer I get the message that I have low disk space in drive D. It's not a real problem (so far), but is very irritating. And if I ever do need to do a restore (back to a previous automated backup) I'll be unable to do that. I'll appreciate any help from more seasoned users. Thanks
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A useful utility for viewing all the files on your PC is called Free Commander, on the link below, as it displays folders that the Operating System normally hides and has a good search function.
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