Hibernation

[Guest]

I have a partitioned drive, and have been watching the size of C: closely.
After setting the computer to hibernate, I restarted and noticed that the
size of C: had shrunk considerably. If data in RAM is written to the drive
during hibernation, when the machine is restarted does Windows recover
(release) the disk space? If not, can I manually recover it?

 

[Bob I]

With "Hibernate" enabled, Drivespace equal to the amount of RAM is
reserved in the hiberfil.sys file. If you DISABLE "hibernate" the space
is freed up. If you are that "short" on space, I would not be surprised
if you have "issues" with "hibernate" working properly.

 

[Geir Klemetsen]

With "Hibernate" enabled, Drivespace equal to the amount of RAM is
reserved in the hiberfil.sys file. If you DISABLE "hibernate" the space
is freed up. If you are that "short" on space, I would not be surprised
if you have "issues" with "hibernate" working properly.

Shouldn't be a problem. The hiberfile has a fixed size, and therefore it'll
not be affected by the fragmentation of the rest of the partition.

 

[Guest]

I disabled hibernate, then rebooted. The 2 GB hiberfil.sys disappeared.

 

[Bob I]

You're welcome.

 

[Bob I]

But if one is "enabling" AND "disabling" the area CAN be used AND become
fragmented and thus cause issues.