Find file share space eaters

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You can quickly find out which department or user is taking up the most disk space on a file share by using the diruse.exe command. If you have a large file share with many top-level

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folders, the easiest way to find out which folder(s) are the biggest is to run "diruse.exe."

For example: c:diruse /M /* f:departments >c:diskspacereport.txt. This example will display, in megabytes, each top-level folder and how much space each folder is taking up. The results will then be written to a text file. This is a very useful command, and one that's easy to use.

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