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Wednesday, August 15, 2012 5:52 PM
Good Afternoon -
A month or so ago, I deployed two Distribution Points at different locations for two of our remote offices. When doing so, I set which partitions I wished for the DPs to use as well as the "Drive Space Reserve" to 50,000MB.
Well, as of today, I'm getting errors distributing content saying that the drive may be full even though the drives has almost 1tb of free space. Therefore, it must be the reserve I set (have distributed ~50g already) and need to increase it.
How do I increase the drive reserve?
I've looked through the Distribution Point role settings for each of the servers (Administration\Server Name\Distribution Point\Properties), but do not see the option.
Please Help! - Thanks!
Ben K.
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Thursday, August 28, 2014 8:35 AM ✅Answered
Hi Ben,
According to article below this setting is "The value that you configure for this setting determines the amount of free space on a drive before System Center 2012 Configuration Manager chooses a different drive and continues the copy process to that drive"
If you give it 50 GB for your target drive than SCCM will decide to copy another drive after you left 50 GB free space in this drive.
I gave it 1024 for my DP.
Ergin Güler
Wednesday, August 15, 2012 6:02 PM
Hi Ben
You can look here:
Wednesday, May 7, 2014 9:25 PM | 2 votes
I was unable to locate anywhere in the console that this can be modified but I did find that if you go into the registry on the Distribution Point itself you can modify the "Reserve Disk Space". The key is located in the following at HKLM\Software\Microsoft\SMS\DP registry key "ReserveDiskSpace".
Friday, March 18, 2016 2:48 AM | 1 vote
Did you even bother to READ his question, he asked about changing the system reserve, he didn't ask for some generic general link.
Friday, March 18, 2016 6:54 AM
Did you even bother to READ his question, he asked about changing the system reserve, he didn't ask for some generic general link.
Well that was almost 2 years ago ...
Torsten Meringer | http://www.mssccmfaq.de
Wednesday, June 12, 2019 4:21 PM
Yes, but these articles come up in various search engines for others looking to address similar problems. I've seen post after post after post, where some moderator or other type of MS representative provide garbage answer to close the thread as answered.
Pretty annoying as articles continued to get indexed and moved up the search rankings. Just to find that your query in the search engine just leads to another dead end.
Ergin falls short of providing an answer, just reiterates how the process is established, which frankly is quite worthless. Might as well tell us the number of bits in a byte.
Problem: There is not an option within the GUI to make the required modification. Changes to the registry will be overwritten when the configuration is read again from the source config. Apparently you can change this via the WMI console or 3rd party editor. Within the SMS_SCI_SysResUse class a sub-object named "MinFreeSpace" can be set. This action would be more for someone who is familiar with making modifications in this manner, not for the vast majority of those searching for an easy solution.
Answer: Review your setting for your DP, then remove it. You will need to reset whatever specific settings you had previously. The system will be scanned for software inventory, but aside from the rescan it shouldn't download additional files (unless there was an update). This is by far the easiest method if you are not skilled with making backend changes.
Not taking any credit for this, scanned many forums and sites and have aggregated information. As well validated that making registry changes does not solve the issue.