I'm getting this alert every day now, but when I look at the drives they all
have gigabytes of free space left. I can't find a way to find
HarddiskVolume10 either. I've tried looking in Computer Management - Disk
Management, but haven't found any clues.
No errors are showing in Event Viewer either for this problem.
Here is the contents of the alert:
Alert on MYSERVER at 20/03/2006 9:06:25 a.m.
The following disk is low on free disk space. Low levels of free disk space
can cause performance problems and prevent users from saving files on the
disk.
Drive Letter: HarddiskVolume10
Free Disk Space: 0.000000. MB
% Free Disk Space: 0.000000.%
Drive Letter: HarddiskVolume9
Free Disk Space: 0.000000. MB
% Free Disk Space: 0.000000.%
You can disable this alert or change its threshold by using the Change Alert
Notifications task in the Server Management Monitoring and Reporting
taskpad.
Any Ideas?
Thanks
Tristan
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Any information would be great.
Thanks
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> Yes, we have two external USB Maxtor drives connected to the server.
> Any information would be great.
OK. In my case, there was one ext USB HD being used for SBS backups
only. Something went wacko - never did discover what, and the problem
never recurred. Here is what I did. Your mileage may vary, so adapt as
needed.
* If you have enough disk space on the server's internal disks, copy any
files that you can't afford to lose to an internal disk. In my case, I
just copied the most recent backup file (of the 5 on the HD). (The
server's disks were RAID 1, so the probability of a simultaneous failure
while doing this recovery work was small.)
* Use Device Manager to UNinstall the USB components supporting the ext
HDs. They will probably be shown as something like "USB Mass Storage
Device".
* Power down the HDs and disconnect the USB cables.
* In my case, a server reboot was not required. But if you are in a
position to conveniently do one, this would be the time.
* Reconnect the USB cables and power up the HDs. They should be
recognized by the server. If not, try rebooting the server (if you have
not already done so).
* Reformat the ext HDs. (This is why you saved files, above.) I think
I opened a command prompt and used the FORMAT command, although doing
this from Windows Explorer should work. A Quick Format won't do - you
need to REALLY format the HDs.
* Recreate ext HD folders if needed and copy back the files you saved.
If you are using the HDs for backup, you should manually recreate the
<drive>:\Backup Files folder which SBS backup expects. (Normally
created by the Configure Backup wizard.)
* If possible, try a test backup if you are using the HDs for backup (to
get rid of the NTDS Replication errors).
OPTIONAL: Assuming all that worked, you can change the Low Disk Space
Alert to be volume-specific. By default, SBS has only a single alert
for all drives. To configure an alert for each volume:
* On the server, launch the Health Monitor (Start | Administrative Tools
| Health Monitor).
* Navigate to Health Monitor | All Monitored Computers | <server> |
Small Business Server Alerts | Core Server Alerts
* Right-click Core Server Alerts and select New | Data Collector |
Performance Monitor
* General Tab:
- Name: "Low Disk Space - Vol x" (x=vol to be monitored, such as C, D,
etc.)
* Details Tab:
- Object: browse to LogicalDisk
- Counter: select % Free Space, Megabyes, and Name
- Instance: browse to LogicalDisk.Name="x:" (x=vol to be monitored)
* Actions Tab: should already have 2 entries: "Send e-mail with
monitoring alert" and "Store alert in monitoring database (with instance
name)", both set to Critical and every 24 hours.
* Schedule Tab:
- Collection Days: select every day
- Collection times: select All day
- Collection internal: select Every 1 minute
- Total samples for average collection: 10
* Message Tab: Something similar to:
- - - - -
The following disk is low on free disk space. Low levels of free disk
space can cause performance problems and prevent users from saving files
on the disk.
Drive Letter: %InstanceName%
Free Disk Space: %EmbeddedCollectedInstance.FreeMegabytes% MB
% Free Disk Space: %EmbeddedCollectedInstance.PercentFreeSpace%%
You can disable this alert or change its threshold by using the Change
Alert Notifications task in the Server Management Monitoring and
Reporting taskpad.
- - - - -
* Click OK to complete the alert.
* Create additional alerts as required for other volumes.
* [Optional: Delete the generic (total) Low Disk Space alert.]
* Close Health Monitor; launch Server Management if it is not already
running.
* Standard Management | Monitoring and Reporting | Change Alert
Notifications
* Performance Counters tab: You should see the volume-specific alerts
you created. You can set threshholds individually for each volume by
selecting the alert and clicking the Edit button.
Hope this helps.
-- Owen Williams
I can believe that, although in my case, there was only one drive that
was not being removed. Very mysterious - only happened with this
client, and only once with them.
(This client started with a tape drive and I added the external HD. The
tape was still used for a weekly backup that was taken offsite, with the
HD being used for the other days.)
-- Owen Williams
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Frank McCallister SBS MVP
MCP Microsoft Small Business Specialist
COMPUMAC
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