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EW111
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system disposable disk full

I have a linked clone pool of 20 machines, with a 15gb persistent disk and a 4gb system disposable disk. ive been running this pool for over a year and have recomposed several times most recently 2 months ago.

I recently started have a new problem. the system disposable disk is getting full, once its full, the vm is unusable, I would need to reboot the vm and the disposable disk is.

anyone have this issue? or possible cause?

thank you

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mittim12
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Have you explored the disposable disk to see what is filling up?

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EW111
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ive looked at it while logged into the vm itself,

* visually i can see that the disk is full with about 30 mb left of 4gb

* if i do a properties on the disk i can only see a very low amount of data like 1gb.

so answer is no i cannot tell whats on the disposable disk.

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mittim12
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What if you go into options and view hidden files, system files, etc?   The page file and other things get redirected to the disposable disk they could easily be using up the space.

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EW111
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I can \\backdoor into the disposable disk and the pagefile.sys is what is filling up. based off some research im doing, as the os uses more memory it will move stuff to the disposable disk, and it will fill up and the only way to clear that is to either reboot the machine or make a script to clear the files.

does that make sense?

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jzumwalt
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did you ever get an answer? I am having my disk fill up with logging

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