Gripe with WHS low free space. help!

Roverno · 19 Aug 2012 at 17:38

Hi all,

Basically my whs has a 60gb ssd boot drive (C

, 1tb wd (D

and a 3tb drive (F

. The large drives are in a pool through stablebit drive pool(E

. My WHS always tells me there is low free space (less than 10%) on my E: drive and G: drive. Yes i typed that correctly, there is low free space on a drive that doesnt exist. Could somebody please explain what is going on as it is limiting my ability to repair a backup becuase it says all storage errors must be gone before you can repair backup.

none of the drives are even past half full so i really do not understand why it is doing this at all...

thanks

Roverno · 20 Aug 2012 at 18:33

Have i asked an unbeatable question?

leezer3 · 21 Aug 2012 at 00:44

I seem to remember a bug in WHS in that you needed sufficient free space on the OS drive to actually store anything you were copying onto the WHS box, regardless of free space anywhere else.

http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en/whssoftware/thread/f62c46b5-9628-4c37-aca7-dc0615873626

Try freeing some space on the SSD.

-Leezer-

Roverno · 23 Aug 2012 at 22:07

I cant believe this... Turns out it was warning me of low free space on my main pc not the server. Wtf whs 2011?? why would you not work because a differnet pc has no free space? this makes no sense...