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    Has anyone here seen their WHS box report a D drive with more available space than the total size listed in Windows Explorer?  I've had my server running for over a year now (WHS with PP1 RTM), and it's just begun doing this over the weekend, around the time of the latest patch update.  My D drive is now showing 694 GB free on a 445 GB volume.  When I bring up the properties of the D drive in Windows Explorer on the server, the used space reading on the first panel is all garbled.


    I think I understand what it's doing; it appears to be counting the full extended volume size as the available size for D.  The trouble is that any mapped volumes on my Vista client boxes now appear in red in Explorer, as if the volumes are full.

    I have two 500 GB disks in my box; I tried adding and removing the second drive from the WHS storage pool.  After removal, the D drive allocations looked believable again.  After I re-added the second drive, the size got all skewed again.  It's currently in the process of rebalancing my storage.

    Any ideas? 

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    Brian






    Saturday, November 29, 2008 6:14 PM

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    Scroll Lock said:

    Has anyone here seen their WHS box report a D drive with more available space than the total size listed in Windows Explorer?  I've had my server running for over a year now (WHS with PP1 RTM), and it's just begun doing this over the weekend, around the time of the latest patch update.  My D drive is now showing 694 GB free on a 445 GB volume.  When I bring up the properties of the D drive in Windows Explorer on the server, the used space reading on the first panel is all garbled.



    I think I understand what it's doing; it appears to be counting the full extended volume size as the available size for D.  The trouble is that any mapped volumes on my Vista client boxes now appear in red in Explorer, as if the volumes are full.

    I have two 500 GB disks in my box; I tried adding and removing the second drive from the WHS storage pool.  After removal, the D drive allocations looked believable again.  After I re-added the second drive, the size got all skewed again.  It's currently in the process of rebalancing my storage.

    Any ideas? 

    Thanks-
    Brian








    Yes, it is part of this week's update.  It was changed to allow Vista to see the entire amount of free space on the server (since Vista won't copy anything if there isn't sufficient free space and before this week's update, it would only see the free space on the primary drive).
    • Edited by kariya21Moderator Saturday, November 29, 2008 6:18 PM more info
    • Marked as answer by Scroll Lock Saturday, November 29, 2008 6:25 PM
    Saturday, November 29, 2008 6:18 PM
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    Scroll Lock said:

    Has anyone here seen their WHS box report a D drive with more available space than the total size listed in Windows Explorer?  I've had my server running for over a year now (WHS with PP1 RTM), and it's just begun doing this over the weekend, around the time of the latest patch update.  My D drive is now showing 694 GB free on a 445 GB volume.  When I bring up the properties of the D drive in Windows Explorer on the server, the used space reading on the first panel is all garbled.



    I think I understand what it's doing; it appears to be counting the full extended volume size as the available size for D.  The trouble is that any mapped volumes on my Vista client boxes now appear in red in Explorer, as if the volumes are full.

    I have two 500 GB disks in my box; I tried adding and removing the second drive from the WHS storage pool.  After removal, the D drive allocations looked believable again.  After I re-added the second drive, the size got all skewed again.  It's currently in the process of rebalancing my storage.

    Any ideas? 

    Thanks-
    Brian








    Yes, it is part of this week's update.  It was changed to allow Vista to see the entire amount of free space on the server (since Vista won't copy anything if there isn't sufficient free space and before this week's update, it would only see the free space on the primary drive).
    • Edited by kariya21Moderator Saturday, November 29, 2008 6:18 PM more info
    • Marked as answer by Scroll Lock Saturday, November 29, 2008 6:25 PM
    Saturday, November 29, 2008 6:18 PM
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    Ahh.  Good to know this is by design.  Now if they'll only send out a Vista patch to make this not look broken on the client. 
    Saturday, November 29, 2008 6:25 PM