I have been watching my available drive space shrink a little each day over the past week. This moodle server has 3 instances on it. Each instance stores its moodle code on the C drive. Each instances moodledata and the DB backups store to the F drive.
One of the three moodle instances uses 3rd party vendor course ware, which turns out, is very disk intensive. There are a couple courses that are 500 MB apiece. Some of the vendor courses only store a shell on our hard drive and link to the content on their server, a nice model.
Today, I noticed the drive space dip a little lower so I decided to take a little action and remove some courses from the instance that was taking up most of the space. After consulting with my customer, I sprang into action and started deleting courses from the moodle instance. As I was doing so, I noticed the overall disk space was not changing much.
I started looking at some of the utilities on the server to see if they would help, like Windows System tools - disk Defragmenter.
Eventually, I looked a little harder and realized that I had not emptied the Recycle Bin on the server ever! I set the server up about 5-6 months ago and had done some deleting of installs and some courses previously.
Ready for this? 54,000 items in my bin. I emptied it and my C drive re-claimed 1.2 GB of space.
Moral of the story?
Empty your Recycle Bin.
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