Guest ejohnson@unitedwww.com Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 I'm running a windows 2000 server with NTFS as the filing system. It's an email server. I'm having problems deleting some large files that are on this server. It seems that if a file is in excess of 500MB, then I can't delete it. I've tried deleting one via windows explorer and the server's UI hung. I've tried deleteing another through the command prompt, and the same thing happened. Some more info: * I was actually attempting to DELETE the file, not move it to the recycle bin. I held down the shift key so it would actually delete the file. * I shut down all the mail services before I attempted to delete the files so I knew there were no processes with an open file handle. Why would windows hang when attempting to delete a file? I realize that it is possible that it was just taking a VERY LONG time to delete, and the UI just appeared hung. But I waited about a half hour and still didn't get the UI back. I had to cold boot the server as my users were starting to complain. Could this problem be due to fragmentation?
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 Re: Problem deleting large files <ejohnson@unitedwww.com> wrote in message news:73bff8cc-cbbb-434d-8a26-64c497834446@f63g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... > I'm running a windows 2000 server with NTFS as the filing system. It's > an email server. > > > I'm having problems deleting some large files that are on this server. > It seems that if a file is in excess of 500MB, then I can't delete it. > I've tried deleting one via windows explorer and the server's UI hung. > I've tried deleteing another through the command prompt, and the same > thing happened. > > Some more info: > > * I was actually attempting to DELETE the file, not move it to the > recycle bin. I held down the shift key so it would actually delete the > file. > > * I shut down all the mail services before I attempted to delete the > files so I knew there were no processes with an open file handle. > > > Why would windows hang when attempting to delete a file? > > I realize that it is possible that it was just taking a VERY LONG time > to delete, and the UI just appeared hung. But I waited about a half > hour and still didn't get the UI back. I had to cold boot the server > as my users were starting to complain. > > Could this problem be due to fragmentation? What does the Event Viewer report?
Guest Sid Elbow Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 Re: Problem deleting large files ejohnson@unitedwww.com wrote: > I'm having problems deleting some large files that are on this server. I feel sure there was a thread on this here a few months ago. Can't remember the resolution but to might want to do a search (either at the MS site or via Google Groups).
Guest ejohnson@unitedwww.com Posted July 8, 2008 Posted July 8, 2008 Re: Problem deleting large files > > What does the Event Viewer report?- Hide quoted text - > Nothing that seems relevant.
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted July 8, 2008 Posted July 8, 2008 Re: Problem deleting large files <ejohnson@unitedwww.com> wrote in message news:88b9bb8c-d0ba-4f33-bebc-a8b1fc4f7dd5@t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com... > >> >> What does the Event Viewer report?- Hide quoted text - >> > > Nothing that seems relevant. The only reason I can think of is a damaged disk. However, this would generate a number of error messages in the event logger. If this was my machine then I would perform a number of tests, preferably after hours in order not to inconvenience the users. Here is what I would do from the Command Prompt: - Create & delete a number of test files of varying sizes on the System partition. - Do the same on other partitions. - Keep an eye on the processor loading while performing the tests. To create a 100 MByte file (or any other size!) quickly, use this command: fsutil file createnew e:\big.bin 100000000
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