Jason Slater Weblog

I don’t know what it is about me that makes me want to be conservative when assigning disk space when creating a system partition - especially knowing how darned difficult it is to change it later.

I previously talked about a terminal services machine with a 2GB system partition with 50MB free and now I’m constantly chasing disk space on a 64-bit DL380 with an 8GB partition (100MB free). Of course when I built the machine 8GB seemed a lot but looking at the configuration now it appears that the Windows folder alone takes up over 6GB distributed between a few folders (SysWow64, system32, SYSMSI, SoftwareDistribution, ServicePackFiles, Microsoft.Net, Installer, inf, assembly, and $hf_mig$).

The ridiculous thing is that this particular server has 386GB unallocated disk space free!