**** Over 25% of partition "is in use by the system" , how to make smaller?***

[Jack Bader]

Hi,

A 2gig mirrored partition in Windows2000 Server shows with chkdsk:

2048255 KB total disk space.
1449435 KB in 15955 files.
6372 KB in 1317 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
570778 KB in use by the system.
12304 KB occupied by the log file.
21669 KB available on disk.

512 bytes in each allocation unit.
4096511 total allocation units on disk.
43339 allocation units available on disk.

There are only 1.4gig of files.

What is in the 570778KB that is "in use by the system" and how can I
make that smaller?

Thanks,
Jack

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Possibly the paging file.

0.5 GBytes is worth about 50 cents. Get a larger hard disk,
and monitor its free disk space well before you've painted
yourself into a corner. A server disk with 21 MBytes of free
space is basically a useless disk. I'm surprised your server
still runs.

 

[Leonard Severt [MSFT]]

(e-mail address removed) (Jack Bader) wrote in

use by the system

That is the space used by the MFT and NTFS Metadata files. It is not going
to be easy to reduce it. I would start by seeing what components are taking
the space. Download and run NTFSInfo from

http://www.sysinternals.com

It will give you a good breakdown.

Leonard Severt

Windows 2000 Server Setup Team

 

[Leonard Severt [MSFT]]

(e-mail address removed) (Jack Bader) wrote in


That is the space used by the MFT and NTFS Metadata files. It is not
going to be easy to reduce it. I would start by seeing what components
are taking the space. Download and run NTFSInfo from

http://www.sysinternals.com

It will give you a good breakdown.

Leonard Severt

Windows 2000 Server Setup Team

Sorry I misread that has 2 terabytes. You are just seeing the overhead
of NTFS on a very small volume. It is to be expected.

Leonard Severt

Windows 2000 Server Setup Team

 

[Guest]

I agree with Pegasus. If you are using that computer as a server and it works fine, maybe you don't need to use it as server in a client/server enviroment. Just install the Win2k Pro and turn your network into a Peer to Peer. However, the easiest is to purchase a new HD. Leave the first drive as your Primary and the new one as a second drive.

 

[Jack Bader]

Leonard,

Here are the results of NTFSINFO:

NTFS Information Dump
Copyright (C) 1997 Mark Russinovich
http://www.ntinternals.com

Volume Size
-----------
Volume size : 2000 MB
Total sectors : 4096511
Total clusters : 4096511
Free clusters : 180290
Free space : 88 MB (4% of drive)

Allocation Size
----------------
Bytes per sector : 512
Bytes per cluster : 512
Bytes per MFT record : 1024
Clusters per MFT record: 2

MFT Information
---------------
MFT size : 32 MB (1% of drive)
MFT start cluster : 112682
MFT zone clusters : 178656 - 178720
MFT zone size : 0 MB (0% of drive)
MFT mirror start : 2054802

Meta-Data files
---------------

C:\>


**** there was NOTHING listed after the Meta-Data files section ****
Someone suggested doing a chkdsk /r

Thanks,
Jack