Low disk space warnings - configurable ?

We have several production (SQL) servers that have free space we consider
low but the Windows 2003 O/S does not. I understand the O/S low disk space
warnings start at 200MB ? Is this correct?

Is there any way to customize these settings to a threshold that we consider
low ? Ultimately we would like to know when HD space drops below 4GB.

Thanks
Nick

 

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Nick <Nick>, posted the following:
> We have several production (SQL) servers that have free space we
> consider low but the Windows 2003 O/S does not. I understand the O/S
> low disk space warnings start at 200MB ? Is this correct?
>
> Is there any way to customize these settings to a threshold that we
> consider low ? Ultimately we would like to know when HD space drops
> below 4GB.
> Thanks
> Nick

You can use Performance Monitor and Alerts tool to create an alert for
diskspace.

HOW TO: Configure a Low Disk Space Alert by Using the Performance Logs and
Alerts Feature in Windows Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324796

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It defaults to 10% You can edit the Reg_DWord value of DiskSpaceThreshold
found at;

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters

If it doesn't exist then ADD it.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/112509


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<Nick> wrote:
> We have several production (SQL) servers that have free space we consider
> low but the Windows 2003 O/S does not. I understand the O/S low disk
> space warnings start at 200MB ? Is this correct?
>
> Is there any way to customize these settings to a threshold that we
> consider low ? Ultimately we would like to know when HD space drops below
> 4GB.
>
> Thanks
> Nick
>
>