Reported Disk Space 10X Space Used

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Johnny Boy

Hi All :) I have a Iomega NAS "appliance" or whatever and
am having some problems with disk space. I have like 20GB
of actual data on the shared RAID, with a capacity of like
500GB, and Windows is reporting that 200GB of space is
being used. I have spoken to Iomega, and they can't
account for the space usage, even with the Persistent
Storage Manager. I have Veritas and Zone Alarm installed,
along with Ad-Aware and SpyBot. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks in advance .... Johnny :)

P.S. >> A guy I talked to said we may have been hacked by a
UNIX PC, and Windows can't see UNIX files or something like
that. I have a Linux box at home if that would provide any
assistance. Thanks again .. Johnny :)
 
Hi All :) I have a Iomega NAS "appliance" or whatever and
am having some problems with disk space. I have like 20GB
of actual data on the shared RAID, with a capacity of like
500GB, and Windows is reporting that 200GB of space is
being used. I have spoken to Iomega, and they can't
account for the space usage, even with the Persistent
Storage Manager. I have Veritas and Zone Alarm installed,
along with Ad-Aware and SpyBot. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks in advance .... Johnny :)

P.S. >> A guy I talked to said we may have been hacked by a
UNIX PC, and Windows can't see UNIX files or something like
that. I have a Linux box at home if that would provide any
assistance. Thanks again .. Johnny :)
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Is the file system FAT32?

Large allocation units will do this.


Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com
 
Johnny Boy said:
Hi All :) I have a Iomega NAS "appliance" or whatever and
am having some problems with disk space. I have like 20GB
of actual data on the shared RAID, with a capacity of like
500GB, and Windows is reporting that 200GB of space is
being used. I have spoken to Iomega, and they can't
account for the space usage, even with the Persistent
Storage Manager. I have Veritas and Zone Alarm installed,
along with Ad-Aware and SpyBot. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
Click to expand...

MFT using lots of space? Shouldn't be anywhere near that much, but you
won't know until you find out. defrag -v is one way to determine this, I'm
sure there are other ways.
Thanks in advance .... Johnny :)

P.S. >> A guy I talked to said we may have been hacked by a
UNIX PC, and Windows can't see UNIX files or something like
that. I have a Linux box at home if that would provide any
assistance. Thanks again .. Johnny :)
Click to expand...

Backup your 20 GB of data. Delete and recreate your partition. Restore the
data. How much has the thing used now?

Phil
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