1. Doesn't matter if it's a seperate physical disk or not. 2. Should still work, asked one of the server gurus here, but he's never tried it on a completely full partition.
Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com richardmccl...@aspca.org 14/07/2009 14:51 Please respond to "NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> To "NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> cc Subject RE: Cleaning up a WSUS server Will that work when: 1. Each 20 Gb volume is a separate physical disk, and 2. The WSUS drive is nearly full? (Don't know what the @#*& is going on, but I just now tried the MS "Disk cleanup and compress". Now it's gone from 200 Kb to 150 Kb to ZERO Kb...) Thanks! tony patton <tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com> wrote on 07/14/2009 08:46:46 AM: > > What about converting the existing wsus partition to dynamic and > allocating the extra 20gig to it as you need it? > > Regards > > Tony Patton > Desktop Operations Cavan > Ext 8078 > Direct Dial 049 435 2878 > email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com > > > richardmccl...@aspca.org > 14/07/2009 14:45 > > Please respond to > "NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> > > To > > "NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> > > cc > > Subject > > RE: Cleaning up a WSUS server > > > > > > Thanks... > > I skipped the "Express installation files", and the 20 Gb WSUS > volume is indeed on a _separate_ volume from the OS. (That's what > led me to building this, my second WSUS, several years back.) > -- > RMc > > Miller Bonnie L. <mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu> wrote on 07/14/2009 > 08:33:08 AM: > > > You don?t mention the version, but if you are on 3 or higher and > > using express installation files (options, update files and > > languages), you might be able to remove those and run cleanup again > > to get some additional space, but that is probably just a band-aid. > > > > BTW, do you mean that the WSUS server + OS are all sharing one 20GB > > partition? If you are thinking of moving it so it has its own 20GB > > volume, I can dig around in my notes?I have done that before, but it > > has been a while. > > > > -Bonnie > > > > From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] > > Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 6:04 AM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: Cleaning up a WSUS server > > > > > > Greetings! > > > > My WSUS server runs off a 20 Gb partition. I have a second, nearly > > blank 20 Gb disk in the same machine. > > > > The WSUS volume is nearly full. I have twice run the "Cleanup > > wizard". Each time, it reports that it has cleared out a few Mb > > disk space. However, when I then look at the disk itself, it shows > > less space than before. (The recycler claims to be empty.) > > > > I guess I could go through the whole list of updates and disapprove > > some of them. I'd prefer to get that second volume used. > > Currently, though, it appears my "options" come to either setting up > > a new and bigger WSUS server, or combining the two 20 Gb volumes > > into a single volume (the dreaded software RAID), and this too would > > be essentially whacking the current WSUS and making a new one. > > > > Help? Thanks! > > -- > > Richard D. McClary > > Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group > > > > ASPCA® > > 1717 S. 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