Comments on: Adjusting The Amount Of Space System Restore Uses [Windows 7] http://www.pcmech.com/article/adjusting-the-amount-of-space-system-restore-uses-windows-7/ Helping Normal People Get Their Geek On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:43:08 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: mrcook http://www.pcmech.com/article/adjusting-the-amount-of-space-system-restore-uses-windows-7/comment-page-1/#comment-25195 mrcook Wed, 27 May 2009 14:19:52 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/article/adjusting-the-amount-of-space-system-restore-uses-windows-7/#comment-25195 Found it! Vista allocates 15% of HD by default. I recovered 30Gb. If you want to change the amount of space used by System Restore, you should use the following command: vssadmin resize shadowstorage /on=[drive letter]: /For=[drive letter]: /Maxsize=[maximum size] MaxSizeSpec must be 300MB or greater and accepts the following suffixes: KB (for kilobytes), MB (for megabytes), GB (for gigabytes), TB (for terabytes), PB (for petabytes) and EB (for exabytes). If a suffix is not supplied, MaxSizeSpec is in bytes. If MaxSizeSpec is not specified, then there will be no limit to the amount of space it may use. For example, if you want System Restore to use a maximum of 1GB of space for the restore points on drive "C:", you should type the following: vssadmin resize shadowstorage /On=C: /For=C: /Maxsize=1GB Vista....Hmmmmm Found it! Vista allocates 15% of HD by default. I recovered 30Gb.

If you want to change the amount of space used by System Restore, you should use the following command:

vssadmin resize shadowstorage /on=[drive letter]: /For=[drive letter]: /Maxsize=[maximum size]

MaxSizeSpec must be 300MB or greater and accepts the following suffixes: KB (for kilobytes), MB (for megabytes), GB (for gigabytes), TB (for terabytes), PB (for petabytes) and EB (for exabytes). If a suffix is not supplied, MaxSizeSpec is in bytes. If MaxSizeSpec is not specified, then there will be no limit to the amount of space it may use.

For example, if you want System Restore to use a maximum of 1GB of space for the restore points on drive “C:”, you should type the following:

vssadmin resize shadowstorage /On=C: /For=C: /Maxsize=1GB

Vista….Hmmmmm

]]> By: Rich Menga http://www.pcmech.com/article/adjusting-the-amount-of-space-system-restore-uses-windows-7/comment-page-1/#comment-25051 Rich Menga Mon, 25 May 2009 08:34:29 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/article/adjusting-the-amount-of-space-system-restore-uses-windows-7/#comment-25051 I would except I don't have Vista unfortunately - but I do know it's different in that OS compared to 7. I would except I don’t have Vista unfortunately – but I do know it’s different in that OS compared to 7.

]]> By: mrcook http://www.pcmech.com/article/adjusting-the-amount-of-space-system-restore-uses-windows-7/comment-page-1/#comment-25027 mrcook Sun, 24 May 2009 23:51:52 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/article/adjusting-the-amount-of-space-system-restore-uses-windows-7/#comment-25027 Good detail. Can you show the steps in Vista ? Good detail. Can you show the steps in Vista ?

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