Find out what's sapping hard drive space?

Question

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Visualize the file system usage on Windows

I have a machine running Windows Server 2003 R2 and over the last week, the available hard drive space has been dropping dramatically. Is there a program that exists that I can install on the server that will watch what files are being ADDED to the drive? I can use WinDirStat and find out when files were last modified, but there are about a hundred users that modify their files every day. If I were able to look at only newly created files, that may point me in the direction of what is killing approximately 6GB a day.

Solution

It will not do it real time, but why not just use Windows' search function by date, then sort the results by size? This will not just show files created, but all files, but I suspect that with you losing 6GB/day, that won't matter, and the answer will stick out like a sore thumb.

You can also play around with the dir command with options similar to this: dir *.* /s /o-d-s /tc >c:\temp\dir.txt The /o-d-s sorts them by date and size, the - means do it newest first and largest first, and the /tc means use the create date. The /s is common and searches sub-directories, and the only annoying thing is is that I cannot get it so sort the entire drive as one unit, rather than by directory.

Comments

[hicklypups]

Not really a duplicate. He wants something like windirstat, but only for the last day, not for the whole disk. I don't think windirstat does that by date.

[surfasb]

Yeah, WinDirStat is just a snapshot.