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Trying to find an explanation of high disk usage that possibly were created because we are using ReFS, and a way to clean them up if possible.
Have a drive on Windows Server 2016 and it is formatted with ReFS and using 64K blocks. The amount of disk for the files is about 5TB when looking at size on disk, but the properties of the drive show 7.5TB. Under settings>storage when I click on the drive it shows 2.5TB of system files. There is nothing installed on this drive, it is just for storing files, there are about 33,000,000 small files on it.
I have done the following:
I saw one article that says the space being used is from ReFS, but does not explain what it is, or if there is a way to clean it up. Article also suggests that using ReFS for many small files is not a good idea. We were asked by the vendor of an application to use ReFS.
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Have a drive on Windows Server 2016 and it is formatted with ReFS and using 64K blocks. The amount of disk for the files is about 5TB when looking at size on disk, but the properties of the drive show 7.5TB. Under settings>storage when I click on the drive it shows 2.5TB of system files. There is nothing installed on this drive, it is just for storing files, there are about 33,000,000 small files on it.
I have done the following:
- Show hidden files
- Show protected files
- Gave myself permissions to all files
- Ensured there are no shadow copies, both from command prompt and GUI
- Ensured protection is turned off
I saw one article that says the space being used is from ReFS, but does not explain what it is, or if there is a way to clean it up. Article also suggests that using ReFS for many small files is not a good idea. We were asked by the vendor of an application to use ReFS.
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