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    I have shared folders mapped as network drives on my Vista Machine, and it reports that it  each of the shares have only 13 GB free even though the WHS console says I have over 1TB free.  My primary hard-drive is 500 gigs, so the network drive reports it's max size as 480 GB (500-20 for the system partition). 

    Therefore when i try to copy over large files (20gb each) it will not let me.  How do i fix this so that I can access the remaining 1TB of free space?   Since this is a single file, I can't use any of the hacky solutions that include using robocopy instead of windows explorer.

    thanks.

    Matt.
    • Edited by mattvds Sunday, September 14, 2008 9:31 PM
    Sunday, September 14, 2008 9:25 PM

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    mattvds said:

    I have my Video folder mapped as a network drive on my Vista Machine, and it reports that it has only 13 GB free even though the WHS console says I have over 1TB free.  My primary hard-drive is 500 gigs, so the network drive reports it's max size as 480 GB (500-20 for the system partition).  It also reports there are 467GB of files on the network drive.  Thus it claims it only has 13 GB free. 

    Therefore when i try to copy over large video files (20gb each) it will not let me.  How do i fix this so that I can access the remaining 1TB of free space?  Is there a max space per share limitation based on the primary drives size?

    thanks.

    Matt.


    The issue is due to the way Power Pack 1 handles files.  Please check Drive Extender Not Migrating Data for details.  Also, at the end of the thread, there is an app written by Theo van Elsberg that will "force" the data to move.  Also, MS is aware of the issue.
    • Marked as answer by mattvds Sunday, September 14, 2008 10:56 PM
    Sunday, September 14, 2008 9:30 PM
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    mattvds said:

    I have my Video folder mapped as a network drive on my Vista Machine, and it reports that it has only 13 GB free even though the WHS console says I have over 1TB free.  My primary hard-drive is 500 gigs, so the network drive reports it's max size as 480 GB (500-20 for the system partition).  It also reports there are 467GB of files on the network drive.  Thus it claims it only has 13 GB free. 

    Therefore when i try to copy over large video files (20gb each) it will not let me.  How do i fix this so that I can access the remaining 1TB of free space?  Is there a max space per share limitation based on the primary drives size?

    thanks.

    Matt.


    The issue is due to the way Power Pack 1 handles files.  Please check Drive Extender Not Migrating Data for details.  Also, at the end of the thread, there is an app written by Theo van Elsberg that will "force" the data to move.  Also, MS is aware of the issue.
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    Thanks,

    That appears to be my problem, I'm running the utility now, hopefully it will fix my problems.

    Matt.
    Sunday, September 14, 2008 9:56 PM
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    Hello Math,

    On a two disk system, the utility (LZreallocator) can only force WHS to move non-duplicated files of the primary disk. So if you have all shares set for duplication this might help much. You have then three options:

    • Set duplication of for one or more shares.
    • Replace your primary disk with one that has more capacity (not practical)
    • Add an additional disk to the pool.

    Then run LZreallocator again.

    Please keep us posted on the results?
    Thanks :-)

    No home server like Home Server
    Monday, September 15, 2008 9:17 PM
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