I notice that Vista allows the recovery of older versions of a single
non-system file -- called shadow copies.

So, it that why System Restore now wants seemingly gargantuan amounts of
hard disk space -- to store the journaling info for shadow copies of
document files?

If you need to substantially reduce the proportion of disk space
allocated to system restore, would it not make sense to turn off shadow
copies, first? How would you turn off shadow copies?

"Robert Blacher" wrote in message
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The syntax of the vssadmin command is not a lot of fun, but it does
allow you to control the amount of space allocated to system restore
and shadow copies.

See:

http://vistasupport.mvps.org/decreas...em_restore.htm


"Mike" wrote in message
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Nevermind, it turns out that it was the System Restore, I didn't
realize that it could use up to 15% of your HDD space, 15% of 600GB
is a lot of space and you do notice... Question is, should I turn it
off?

"Mike" wrote in message
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I have a really stupid question: What is the System Volume
Information folder used for? And why does it contain 60GB of data
there?

Running Vista x64bit Build 6000 (RTM)
RAID5 (x3 320GB)

Thanks,
Mike