If you ever wondered where is your disk space flying away when you don’t seem to have a lot of media files and Gigabytes of music you might want to take a deeper look. First off let me put things into perspective, being a blogger I have to keep trying new softwares and tips and tricks to make sure that you the readers get nothing but the best and validated and working stuff. So today when I wanted to install some stuff I found that I have only 1 GB of disk space left. I quickly opened up C:\ and had a look on what was eating up so much space, there was nothing unusual happening there. Then it struck me that it must be the system restore eating up the space. I mounted the partition in Linux and this is what I found:
You might have to go into folder options and choose Show Hidden Files and Folders to view the folder.
Now I have some Linux ISO’s indicated by "Red", but the main point to notice is that System Volume Information (Green) is consuming a whooping 3.3 GB and this by no means is very much, I have seen System Volume Information consuming 10s of GB depending on the size of the partition. So now what can you do?
Well you can turn of system restore completely but that is not recommended as you might have to roll back to a save point if anything bad happens to you system. The other more wise thing to do would be to decrease the disk space available to System Restore. You can access this as follows Right Click My Computer Icon and choose properties or Choose System from within the Control Panel or do it my way and Just Hit the Windows Key + The Pause/ Break Key (next to scroll lock). This will open up the System Properties Dialog box, from there click on the System Restore Tab and from there click on a drive and you can change the amount of disk space allocated to System Restore. Be warned this will mean having lesser number of restore points to revert back to.
So its one of those catch 22 like situations where you have to find a path that best suites you and is optimum for you. I would suggest to move the slider to allocate anywhere between 0.5GB – 1.0GB. So have a look at your drive and adjust the slider to get some space back!
Nice trick…
A question or an observation?… i had an observation in my system when it’s getting slow is because my system is overheating… that happen when I put the laptop over my bed and then the CPU USE run from 15% to 100%…. only when I was watching a video… but when I put back to my desk… and point a fan to it. the speed goes to normal… thats what happens when I use a lot my laptop… like 20 hours per day….
The utilization increases due to over heating no doubt, but it increases more when you keep it on bed is because you block the air passage. Air passage from below is blocked while it is kept on bed because air is trapped in mattress etc where as no such thing occurs on a hard base like a table.
thanks Monica…T.T i miss being in the bed with my laptop… damn demoniac bed…
@uchari
Neither a question nor an observation but desperation, I suffer terribly due to lack of disk space so was just emptying the drive when I happened to know this!
@ uchari
PS: Sorry I forgot what it is actually called but its purpose is to keep the base of laptop cool and because its light in weight one easily keep it on lap or bed or anywhere and work as one likes.
So How about you tell us how to get that nifty HD usage image ! ? …
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Yes, I’m running a dualBoot winVista/Ubuntu8.04/Gnome so…
What’s the proggy for that pic! Freeware, shareware, commercial, doesn’t matter to me… That’s a damn fine way to see an HD!
send email right away, I’ll post it to Ubuntuforums.