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#68941 - 2002-08-09 05:33 PM Total space used on a system
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Is there a straightforward way to return the total space USED on a drive?

We are evaluating newer backup solutions, and I want to hack together a script to go to a group of NT/2K servers (about 100) and calculate the total space used on all local hard drives. I could do some ugly stuff with CMD Dir, but it would be painfully slow and, well... ugly.

These systems may not all have WMI installed. I searched on "drive space", but couldn't find anything directly relevant.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

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#68942 - 2002-08-09 05:36 PM Re: Total space used on a system
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Mark,

Does - GetDiskSpace work for you?

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#68943 - 2002-08-09 05:39 PM Re: Total space used on a system
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Check this one out. It is a hardware inventory script with a bunch of disk space stuff you might be interested in.

http://81.17.37.55/board/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=000738#000004
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#68944 - 2002-08-09 05:58 PM Re: Total space used on a system
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Kent:

GetDiskSpace returns free space... I need total space used. Thanks, though.

ITDEPT:

I'll check that link out... sounds like what I'm looking for. Thanks.

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#68945 - 2002-08-09 06:05 PM Re: Total space used on a system
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Looks like that inventory script is meant to be run locally. I need to check these servers remotely. It also doesn't return total drive space as far as I can tell.

Unfortunately, running winmsd is about as rough a way of doing this as running dir /s/a. There has to be a better way.

TIA

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#68946 - 2002-08-09 06:27 PM Re: Total space used on a system
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there was a dirsize() udf.. but it parses every file, and will therefore take a long time...
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#68947 - 2002-08-09 06:29 PM Re: Total space used on a system
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ther is also chkdsk... but you can't run it remotely. You could schedule it and output to a logfile...
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#68948 - 2002-08-09 06:30 PM Re: Total space used on a system
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what about getting disksize and reducing freespace from it?
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#68949 - 2002-08-09 06:49 PM Re: Total space used on a system
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Getting disk size and subtracting free space from it would work, but I'm even stuck there.

I may just go back to a WMI solution and manually check the systems that fail with WMI.

Here is some interesting MS code.

code:
strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
    & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colDisks = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
    ("Select * from Win32_LogicalDisk")
For each objDisk in colDisks
    Wscript.Echo "Compressed: " & vbTab &  objDisk.Compressed	 
    Wscript.Echo "Description: " & vbTab &  objDisk.Description	 
    Wscript.Echo "DeviceID: " & vbTab &  objDisk.DeviceID	 
    Wscript.Echo "DriveType: " & vbTab &  objDisk.DriveType	 
    Wscript.Echo "FileSystem: " & vbTab &  objDisk.FileSystem	 
    Wscript.Echo "FreeSpace: " & vbTab &  objDisk.FreeSpace	 
    Wscript.Echo "MediaType: " & vbTab &  objDisk.MediaType	 
    Wscript.Echo "Name: " & vbTab &  objDisk.Name	 
    Wscript.Echo "QuotasDisabled: " & vbTab &  objDisk.QuotasDisabled
    Wscript.Echo "QuotasIncomplete: " & vbTab &  objDisk.QuotasIncomplete
    Wscript.Echo "QuotasRebuilding: " & vbTab &  objDisk.QuotasRebuilding
    Wscript.Echo "Size: " & vbTab &  objDisk.Size	 
    Wscript.Echo "SupportsDiskQuotas: " & vbTab & _
        objDisk.SupportsDiskQuotas	 
    Wscript.Echo "SupportsFileBasedCompression: " & vbTab & _
        objDisk.SupportsFileBasedCompression	 
    Wscript.Echo "SystemName: " & vbTab &  objDisk.SystemName	 
    Wscript.Echo "VolumeDirty: " & vbTab &  objDisk.VolumeDirty	 
    Wscript.Echo "VolumeName: " & vbTab &  objDisk.VolumeName	 
    Wscript.Echo "VolumeSerialNumber: " & vbTab &  _
        objDisk.VolumeSerialNumber	 
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#68950 - 2002-08-09 07:47 PM Re: Total space used on a system
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How about FileSystemObject:

code:
$objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
$Drives = $objFSO.Drives
For each $Drive in $Drives
	If $Drive.Drivetype=2
		? "Drive: " $Drive.Driveletter
		? "	Total Space: " $Drive.TotalSize
		? "	 Free Space: " $Drive.FreeSpace
		?
	Endif
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#68951 - 2002-08-09 08:16 PM Re: Total space used on a system
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The problem with the file system object is that it is local. I need to check this on other systems. Looks like I'm stuck with WMI.

Thanks, though!

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#68952 - 2002-08-10 05:09 AM Re: Total space used on a system
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NMM,

> Kent:

> GetDiskSpace returns free space... I need total space used. Thanks, though.

Yes.. If you got the (total size of the drive) - (free space) wouldn't that be what you are looking for?

Here is what we use to send to our admins.. It is batch and I am sure that it could be converted to Kix..

http://www.robvanderwoude.com/files/servers.txt

Instead of NET VIEW, we have it read (TYPE) from a list..

When complete, it e-mails us the .CSV file..

Thanks,

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#68953 - 2002-08-10 06:41 AM Re: Total space used on a system
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I think we have hope in there somewhere.
ms does not give any hits but simple STFW gives:
http://www.csharphelp.com/archives2/archive334.html

it does not fit, but maybe some day it will...
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