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Windows Home Server Incorrectly Reporting Drive Size

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dmw16

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My WHS machine is reporting the drive size incorrectly.

When I go into the WHS Console it shows a total size of 1.82TB w/ 1.03TB free. However, in 'My Computer' (when I remote-desktop in) it shows a total size of 911GB w/ 1.03TB free.

So it accurately reports my free space, but shows that I only have 911GB of space.

This gets annoying because when the drives are mapped on my Win7 machine is just shows the "spacing remaining" bar red and full rather than how it should be.

Any way to fix this?
 
The Drive Extender in WHS lies to Explorer. What you are seeing is normal. I have two 1 TB disks, about half full, and Explorer says I have 906 GB of total disk space and 942 GB of free space.

I don't know of any "fix" for this. You wouldn't normally map drives that are part of WHS' storage pool, since modifying the disks directly from explorer would go around Drive Extender.
 
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Go by location rather than mapping drives ie \\WHS\VIDEOS\PR0N

edit: shoot, it automatically plops the shared folders on your desktop when you install the Connector, and if you've deleted that it will still show in your explorer under the network shares.
 
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BTA said:
Why does this matter?

Using WHS you should be concerned with shares only.
Click to expand...

Only matters cuz it's a little annoying. Certainly not a show-stopper or anything. But if there was an easy solution then I'd want to fix it.

Sounds like there isn't so I'll leave with it as-is.
 
It's just a quirk with Drive Extender. It's reporting the size of the first data partition (the data partition on the system drive) as the total size of the share, rather than reporting the sum of all the data partitions. However it's purely cosmetic and doesn't impact the operation of WHS.

As far as I know there's no way to fix this.
 
I've just got myself thinking of it as "if I see the big red bar that means it's a drive mapping of one of my WHS shares".

So in that way, it's kind of useful 🙂
 
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