Hard drive disk getting full randomly
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I am running Windows 10 through VMWare Fusion Professional 10.1.3 on my Macbook Pro with MacOS 10.14. Last night I received a warning that my Windows Machine was low in storage so I went to disk cleanup and liberated around 4 GB of disk space. This morning I wake up again and it is full. Weird... but I uninstalled programs, deleted files, and freed up 20gb of space. I left the VM running in the background for many hours, but when I webt back to it the disk was full again. I checked for Windows Update and there was one pending so I installed it and when the machine restarted there was 3 gb left again. I went through Disk Cleanup and i'm freeing up 3 more gigs. This is very weird, it is as if there is a process writing to disk. Where do I even start? Any ideas?
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After using WinDirStat I quickly realized that the Directory SfDevCluster was over 180 GB! That folder is used by the Azure Service Fabric SDK Emulator, which is weird because the Cluster Emulator was not on as far as I could tell. Maybe some sort of process was hanging in an infinite loop writing to the logs or something. The weird part is that I did restart the machine, though. I will keep an eye on that folder to see if this issue arises again.
FYI, to regain the space, all I had to do was to reset the cluster using the Local Cluster Manager.
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I am running Windows 10 through VMWare Fusion Professional 10.1.3 on my Macbook Pro with MacOS 10.14. Last night I received a warning that my Windows Machine was low in storage so I went to disk cleanup and liberated around 4 GB of disk space. This morning I wake up again and it is full. Weird... but I uninstalled programs, deleted files, and freed up 20gb of space. I left the VM running in the background for many hours, but when I webt back to it the disk was full again. I checked for Windows Update and there was one pending so I installed it and when the machine restarted there was 3 gb left again. I went through Disk Cleanup and i'm freeing up 3 more gigs. This is very weird, it is as if there is a process writing to disk. Where do I even start? Any ideas?
Update
After using WinDirStat I quickly realized that the Directory SfDevCluster was over 180 GB! That folder is used by the Azure Service Fabric SDK Emulator, which is weird because the Cluster Emulator was not on as far as I could tell. Maybe some sort of process was hanging in an infinite loop writing to the logs or something. The weird part is that I did restart the machine, though. I will keep an eye on that folder to see if this issue arises again.
FYI, to regain the space, all I had to do was to reset the cluster using the Local Cluster Manager.
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asked Nov 15 at 21:23
Jonas Stawski
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You will have to use a program that will allow you to visualize what is using up your space. We cannot answer this question without that information.
– Ramhound
Nov 15 at 21:25
Any ideas of which program to use?
– Jonas Stawski
Nov 15 at 21:54
Since this happened again after a Windows Update, you might look to the Windows.old directory in the Windows root. As @Ramhound suggests, try a Windows OS program such as TreeSize Free to find out what's cluttering the drive.
– DrMoishe Pippik
Nov 15 at 21:57
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I am more than willing to answer the author's question, once the required information, is provided and added to the question body.
– Ramhound
Nov 15 at 22:16
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I have linked to a question, with more than 2 dozen answers, that all provide possible solutions to how you determine what is using your storage space. The purpose of one of those programs is to determine if your space is being used by system files or something else entirely.
– Ramhound
Nov 15 at 22:28
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I am running Windows 10 through VMWare Fusion Professional 10.1.3 on my Macbook Pro with MacOS 10.14. Last night I received a warning that my Windows Machine was low in storage so I went to disk cleanup and liberated around 4 GB of disk space. This morning I wake up again and it is full. Weird... but I uninstalled programs, deleted files, and freed up 20gb of space. I left the VM running in the background for many hours, but when I webt back to it the disk was full again. I checked for Windows Update and there was one pending so I installed it and when the machine restarted there was 3 gb left again. I went through Disk Cleanup and i'm freeing up 3 more gigs. This is very weird, it is as if there is a process writing to disk. Where do I even start? Any ideas?
Update
After using WinDirStat I quickly realized that the Directory SfDevCluster was over 180 GB! That folder is used by the Azure Service Fabric SDK Emulator, which is weird because the Cluster Emulator was not on as far as I could tell. Maybe some sort of process was hanging in an infinite loop writing to the logs or something. The weird part is that I did restart the machine, though. I will keep an eye on that folder to see if this issue arises again.
FYI, to regain the space, all I had to do was to reset the cluster using the Local Cluster Manager.
windows-10 ssd vmware disk-space vmware-fusion
asked Nov 15 at 21:23
Jonas Stawski
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I am running Windows 10 through VMWare Fusion Professional 10.1.3 on my Macbook Pro with MacOS 10.14. Last night I received a warning that my Windows Machine was low in storage so I went to disk cleanup and liberated around 4 GB of disk space. This morning I wake up again and it is full. Weird... but I uninstalled programs, deleted files, and freed up 20gb of space. I left the VM running in the background for many hours, but when I webt back to it the disk was full again. I checked for Windows Update and there was one pending so I installed it and when the machine restarted there was 3 gb left again. I went through Disk Cleanup and i'm freeing up 3 more gigs. This is very weird, it is as if there is a process writing to disk. Where do I even start? Any ideas?
Update
After using WinDirStat I quickly realized that the Directory SfDevCluster was over 180 GB! That folder is used by the Azure Service Fabric SDK Emulator, which is weird because the Cluster Emulator was not on as far as I could tell. Maybe some sort of process was hanging in an infinite loop writing to the logs or something. The weird part is that I did restart the machine, though. I will keep an eye on that folder to see if this issue arises again.
FYI, to regain the space, all I had to do was to reset the cluster using the Local Cluster Manager.
windows-10 ssd vmware disk-space vmware-fusion
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You will have to use a program that will allow you to visualize what is using up your space. We cannot answer this question without that information.
– Ramhound
Nov 15 at 21:25
Any ideas of which program to use?
– Jonas Stawski
Nov 15 at 21:54
Since this happened again after a Windows Update, you might look to the Windows.old directory in the Windows root. As @Ramhound suggests, try a Windows OS program such as TreeSize Free to find out what's cluttering the drive.
– DrMoishe Pippik
Nov 15 at 21:57
1
I am more than willing to answer the author's question, once the required information, is provided and added to the question body.
– Ramhound
Nov 15 at 22:16
1
I have linked to a question, with more than 2 dozen answers, that all provide possible solutions to how you determine what is using your storage space. The purpose of one of those programs is to determine if your space is being used by system files or something else entirely.
– Ramhound
Nov 15 at 22:28
|
show 5 more comments
You will have to use a program that will allow you to visualize what is using up your space. We cannot answer this question without that information.
– Ramhound
Nov 15 at 21:25
Any ideas of which program to use?
– Jonas Stawski
Nov 15 at 21:54
Since this happened again after a Windows Update, you might look to the Windows.old directory in the Windows root. As @Ramhound suggests, try a Windows OS program such as TreeSize Free to find out what's cluttering the drive.
– DrMoishe Pippik
Nov 15 at 21:57
1
I am more than willing to answer the author's question, once the required information, is provided and added to the question body.
– Ramhound
Nov 15 at 22:16
1
I have linked to a question, with more than 2 dozen answers, that all provide possible solutions to how you determine what is using your storage space. The purpose of one of those programs is to determine if your space is being used by system files or something else entirely.
– Ramhound
Nov 15 at 22:28
You will have to use a program that will allow you to visualize what is using up your space. We cannot answer this question without that information.
– Ramhound
Nov 15 at 21:25
You will have to use a program that will allow you to visualize what is using up your space. We cannot answer this question without that information.
– Ramhound
Nov 15 at 21:25
Any ideas of which program to use?
– Jonas Stawski
Nov 15 at 21:54
Any ideas of which program to use?
– Jonas Stawski
Nov 15 at 21:54
Since this happened again after a Windows Update, you might look to the Windows.old directory in the Windows root. As @Ramhound suggests, try a Windows OS program such as TreeSize Free to find out what's cluttering the drive.
– DrMoishe Pippik
Nov 15 at 21:57
Since this happened again after a Windows Update, you might look to the Windows.old directory in the Windows root. As @Ramhound suggests, try a Windows OS program such as TreeSize Free to find out what's cluttering the drive.
– DrMoishe Pippik
Nov 15 at 21:57
1
1
I am more than willing to answer the author's question, once the required information, is provided and added to the question body.
– Ramhound
Nov 15 at 22:16
I am more than willing to answer the author's question, once the required information, is provided and added to the question body.
– Ramhound
Nov 15 at 22:16
1
1
I have linked to a question, with more than 2 dozen answers, that all provide possible solutions to how you determine what is using your storage space. The purpose of one of those programs is to determine if your space is being used by system files or something else entirely.
– Ramhound
Nov 15 at 22:28
I have linked to a question, with more than 2 dozen answers, that all provide possible solutions to how you determine what is using your storage space. The purpose of one of those programs is to determine if your space is being used by system files or something else entirely.
– Ramhound
Nov 15 at 22:28
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You will have to use a program that will allow you to visualize what is using up your space. We cannot answer this question without that information.
– Ramhound
Nov 15 at 21:25
Any ideas of which program to use?
– Jonas Stawski
Nov 15 at 21:54
Since this happened again after a Windows Update, you might look to the Windows.old directory in the Windows root. As @Ramhound suggests, try a Windows OS program such as TreeSize Free to find out what's cluttering the drive.
– DrMoishe Pippik
Nov 15 at 21:57
1
I am more than willing to answer the author's question, once the required information, is provided and added to the question body.
– Ramhound
Nov 15 at 22:16
1
I have linked to a question, with more than 2 dozen answers, that all provide possible solutions to how you determine what is using your storage space. The purpose of one of those programs is to determine if your space is being used by system files or something else entirely.
– Ramhound
Nov 15 at 22:28