Over the course of a few years I've worked out a few folders on most Windows servers that need to be monitored for space usage, because the GBs can pile up remarkably quickly otherwise. I discovered another one today (Recycle Bin - because other users can leave stuff piled up in there that's still filling the disk) which causes me to wonder what else I'm missing. The process of actually deleting the offending files is a more complicated issue, but the first step is knowing they are there at all!
I have the following folders defined, with thresholds of 200MB for yellow and 500MB for red:
client-local.cfg:
[win32] dir:C:\$Recycle.Bin dir:C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER dir:C:\Windows\Logs\CBS dir:C:\Windows\Temp
analysis.cfg:
CLASS=win32 DIR C:\$Recycle.Bin yellow SIZE<200000 TRACK=C-RCB DIR C:\$Recycle.Bin red SIZE<500000 DIR C:\Windows\Logs\CBS yellow SIZE<200000 TRACK=C-CBS DIR C:\Windows\Logs\CBS red SIZE<500000 DIR C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER yellow SIZE<200000 TRACK=C-WER DIR C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER red SIZE<500000 DIR C:\Windows\Temp yellow SIZE<200000 TRACK=C-Windows-Temp DIR C:\Windows\Temp red SIZE<500000
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