{"id":2330,"date":"2013-08-29T09:12:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T16:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainlitter.com\/?p=2330"},"modified":"2013-08-29T09:12:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T16:12:03","slug":"finding-missing-drive-space-on-hyper-v-vms-with-spacesniffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/brainlitter\/2013\/08\/29\/finding-missing-drive-space-on-hyper-v-vms-with-spacesniffer\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding missing drive space on Hyper-V Vm\u2019s with SpaceSniffer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post was written by the amazing Louis on our team.\u00a0 He identified a problem where virtual machines would indicate no remaining space and yet show hidden files, etc. turned on, we couldn\u2019t find the culprits.\u00a0 Stranger still, if we rebooted the space was freed (but I don\u2019t want to be a pirate \u2026 I mean, I don\u2019t want to reboot all the time).<\/p>\n<h2>Here\u2019s Louis post\u2026<\/h2>\n<p>I have been having some odd issues with Hyper-V VM&#8217;s reporting inconsistent drive space with large chucks of used data missing. The drive will say its full yet if in windows you select all the data and do an Alt-Enter it shows that the data used doesn&#8217;t match how full the drive says it is.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t found any real solutions from Microsoft, but my fix has been to run a third party program SpaceSniffer. It&#8217;s a free executable that give you a nice graphical representation of where all your data is.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/brainlitter\/2013\/08\/image5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-top: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border: 0px\" title=\"image\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/brainlitter\/2013\/08\/image_thumb5.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"557\" height=\"356\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uderzo.it\/main_products\/space_sniffer\/download.html\">Get SpaceSniffer<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>In this case I found over 60GB of temp data under the c:usersuserxxxAppDataLocalTemp folder that didn&#8217;t show in windows even though I had all the hidden file views turned on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post was written by the amazing Louis on our team.\u00a0 He identified a problem where virtual machines would indicate no remaining space and yet show hidden files, etc. turned on, we couldn\u2019t find the culprits.\u00a0 Stranger still, if we rebooted the space was freed (but I don\u2019t want to be a pirate \u2026 I &hellip; 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