{"id":2164,"date":"2022-08-23T12:46:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T16:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=2164"},"modified":"2025-06-20T11:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T15:12:11","slug":"windows-system-volume-info-very-large","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=2164","title":{"rendered":"Windows System Volume Info very large"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll just put this here<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>vssadmin list shadows &gt; vssadmin-list-shadows.log<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>vssadmin list shadowStorage &gt; vssadmin-list-shadowStorage.log<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>vssadmin delete shadows \/for=c: \/oldest<br> may need to do this a number of times to free up some space, see list shadows<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>reboot<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>vssadmin resize shadowStorage \/For=c: \/On=c: \/MaxSize=5%<br>     i&#8217;ve seen a default of 10% on servers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> https:\/\/windowsreport.com\/system-volume-information-large\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. run elevated command prompt (cmd with administrator rights): type<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dism.exe \/online \/Cleanup-Image \/StartComponentCleanup<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dism.exe \/online \/Cleanup-Image \/StartComponentCleanup \/ResetBase<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>freed about 100-200Mb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. delete files in %SystemDrive%\\Windows\\SoftwareDistribution\\Download<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>freed&nbsp; 1-2&nbsp;Gbs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3.&nbsp;run elevated command prompt (cmd with administrator rights):&nbsp;and type:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TAKEOWN \/F &#8220;C:\\Windows\\System32\\DriverStore\\FileRepository&#8221; \/R<br>ICACLS &#8220;C:\\Windows\\System32\\DriverStore\\FileRepository&#8221; \/T \/L \/GRANT *S-1-1-0:F<br>RD \/s \/Q &#8220;C:\\Windows\\System32\\DriverStore\\FileRepository\\&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>freed&nbsp;many Gbs!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/insider\/forum\/all\/large-amount-of-disk-space-lost-just-in-minutes\/3f97f6c9-08ec-4523-ae50-9889026ff723\">https:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/insider\/forum\/all\/large-amount-of-disk-space-lost-just-in-minutes\/3f97f6c9-08ec-4523-ae50-9889026ff723<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll just put this here vssadmin list shadows &gt; vssadmin-list-shadows.log vssadmin list shadowStorage &gt; vssadmin-list-shadowStorage.log vssadmin delete shadows \/for=c: \/oldest may need to do this a number of times to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2164"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3760,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions\/3760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}