I have a virtual file server in my environment that has a drive filling up. My usual process is to run WinDirStat to see what can be cleaned up before provisioning more storage.
To my dismay - I found out that data dedupe is turned on for this volume!! I can't actually see which users (this is a home directory share) are actually consuming the most data. Is there anyway to tell when this was turned on and by who? Is this ever auto enabled?
When I look in the server manager I see that there are "Deduplication Savings"; however, file explorer shows the disk at 80% capacity with "chunk store" taking up the majority of the actual space within a hidden System Volume Information folder.
I cloned the file server. Next I disabled dedupe on the drive within server manager. Next I ran the powershell comand:
Start-DedupJob -Volume"E:" -Type Unoptimization
This command causes the server to blue screen.
Any suggestions?
JLC