You can radically clean up the System Volume Information directory by disabling the system restore points and file history. But this is not always permissible.<\/p>\n
Firstly, let?s see what is stored in this directory. Display the statistics of using shadow copies:<\/p>\n
As you can see, 10% of system drive space C:\\ is allocated for snapshot files and only 2% of which is occupied. If the value of?Maximum Shadow Copy Storage<\/strong>?space<\/strong>?is set to UNBOUNDED, it means that the limit for shadow copies is not set and they may occupy all free space on the disk. By default, the system gives 10% of the total disk space to store this data.<\/p>\n You can reduce the disk usage limit by VSS to 2 GB using the vssadmin command. The vssadmin command has the following syntax:<\/p>\n In our example it will look like this:<\/p>\nvssadmin list shadowstorage<\/code><\/p>\n![\"vssadmin](\"http:\/\/woshub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/vssadmin-list-shadowstorage.jpg\")
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\nvssadmin 1.1 ? Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
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\nShadow Copy Storage association
\nFor volume: (E:)\\\\?\\Volume{5a419164-9eba-11e5-84c5-004046bbefbb}\\
\nShadow Copy Storage volume: (E:)\\\\?\\Volume{5a419164-9eba-11e5-84c5-004046bbefbb}\\
\nUsed Shadow Copy Storage space: 3.08 MB (0%)
\nAllocated Shadow Copy Storage space: 896 MB (1%)
\nMaximum Shadow Copy Storage space: 19.0 GB (29%)
\nShadow Copy Storage association
\nFor volume: (C:)\\\\?\\Volume{843c6330-9866-11e5-80b3-806e6f6e6942}\\
\nShadow Copy Storage volume: (C:)\\\\?\\Volume{843c6330-9866-11e5-80b3-806e6f6e6942}\\
\nUsed Shadow Copy Storage space: 912 MB (2%)
\nAllocated Shadow Copy Storage space: 1.20 GB (3%)
\nMaximum Shadow Copy Storage space: 3.98 GB (10%)<\/em><\/p>\nvssadmin resize shadowstorage \/on=[drive letter]: \/For=[drive letter]: \/MaxSize=[maximum size]<\/code><\/p>\nvssadmin resize shadowstorage \/on=c: \/for=c: \/maxsize=2GB<\/code><\/p>\n