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user29266
Asked: 2009-12-16 17:06:22 +0800 CST

Server - clean up tool?

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I have a Windows 2008 virtual server. Some how every week my server uses an extra 2 gigs and I do not know the reason. Are there any free utility tools that can scan a server and let you know whats gobbling up space?

windows-server-2008

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  1. Best Answer

    WinDirStat does a nice job of displaying disk utilization; drilldown into directories organized by size, refresh the whole thing or just a subdirectory after you've done some cleaning. Sorts the "tree" display at the top by cumulative size as it scans; displays the lower graphical representation only after the scan finishes.

    Allows you to create user-specified "cleanups" such as compressing an entire directory structure into a 7zip file via command line.

    Free, GPL, stable for years. Now on sourceforge: WinDirStat Project Page

    And if you don't like its default "pacman" animation while it's scanning a directory structure you can turn it off from the options.

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  2. We use TreeSize to do these types of things (although we bought the pro version as well for a few of our servers

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  3. I use JDiskReport (free) for this purpose. You can also check the other options here

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  4. I like SequoiaView because it groups trees together and you can color different file types to visually see what's taking up space.

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