Das geniale sdelete aus den PsTools von Sysinternals / Microosft kennt denke ich fast jeder.
Wer s.g. ThinProvisioning einsetzt, muss schon mal den nicht mehr allokierten Speicherbereich wieder freigeben.
Sdelete kann nur leider nicht mit MountingPoints umgehen.
Hier ist eine Alternative, ein PowershellScript das Nullen schreibt und mit MountingPoints umgehen kann.
Das Script ist von http://blog.whatsupduck.net/2012/03/powershell-alternative-to-sdelete.html
Das Script lässt sich auch sehr gut nehmen, um gleich alle Laufwerke zu bereinigen:
Get-WmiObject Win32_Volume -filter "drivetype=3" | C:\Script\Sdelete.ps1
.SYNOPSIS Writes a large file full of zeroes to a volume in order to allow a storage appliance to reclaim unused space. .DESCRIPTION Creates a file called ThinSAN.tmp on the specified volume that fills the volume up to leave only the percent free value (default is 5%) with zeroes. This allows a storage appliance that is thin provisioned to mark that drive space as unused and reclaim the space on the physical disks. .PARAMETER Root The folder to create the zeroed out file in. This can be a drive root (c:\) or a mounted folder (m:\mounteddisk). This must be the root of the mounted volume, it cannot be an arbitrary folder within a volume. .PARAMETER PercentFree A float representing the percentage of total volume space to leave free. The default is .05 (5%) .EXAMPLE PS> Write-ZeroesToFreeSpace -Root "c:\" This will create a file of all zeroes called c:\ThinSAN.tmp that will fill the c drive up to 95% of its capacity. .EXAMPLE PS> Write-ZeroesToFreeSpace -Root "c:\MountPoints\Volume1" -PercentFree .1 This will create a file of all zeroes called c:\MountPoints\Volume1\ThinSAN.tmp that will fill up the volume that is mounted to c:\MountPoints\Volume1 to 90% of its capacity. .EXAMPLE PS> Get-WmiObject Win32_Volume -filter "drivetype=3" | Write-ZeroesToFreeSpace This will get a list of all local disks (type=3) and fill each one up to 95% of their capacity with zeroes. .NOTES You must be running as a user that has permissions to write to the root of the volume you are running this script against. This requires elevated privileges using the default Windows permissions on the C drive. #> param( [Parameter(Mandatory=$true,ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true)] [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()] [Alias("Name")] $Root, [Parameter(Mandatory=$false)] [ValidateRange(0,1)] $PercentFree =.05 ) process{ #Convert the $Root value to a valid WMI filter string $FixedRoot = ($Root.Trim("\") -replace "\\","\\") + "\\" $FileName = "ThinSAN.tmp" $FilePath = Join-Path $Root $FileName #Check and make sure the file doesn't already exist so we don't clobber someone's data if( (Test-Path $FilePath) ) { Write-Error -Message "The file $FilePath already exists, please delete the file and try again" } else { #Get a reference to the volume so we can calculate the desired file size later $Volume = gwmi win32_volume -filter "name='$FixedRoot'" if($Volume) { #I have not tested for the optimum IO size ($ArraySize), 64kb is what sdelete.exe uses $ArraySize = 64kb #Calculate the amount of space to leave on the disk $SpaceToLeave = $Volume.Capacity * $PercentFree #Calculate the file size needed to leave the desired amount of space $FileSize = $Volume.FreeSpace - $SpacetoLeave #Create an array of zeroes to write to disk $ZeroArray = new-object byte[]($ArraySize) #Open a file stream to our file $Stream = [io.File]::OpenWrite($FilePath) #Start a try/finally block so we don't leak file handles if any exceptions occur try { #Keep track of how much data we've written to the file $CurFileSize = 0 while($CurFileSize -lt $FileSize) { #Write the entire zero array buffer out to the file stream $Stream.Write($ZeroArray,0, $ZeroArray.Length) #Increment our file size by the amount of data written to disk $CurFileSize += $ZeroArray.Length } } finally { #always close our file stream, even if an exception occurred if($Stream) { $Stream.Close() } #always delete the file if we created it, even if an exception occurred if( (Test-Path $FilePath) ) { del $FilePath } } } else { Write-Error "Unable to locate a volume mounted at $Root" } } }