Does anyone out there in Home-server land have a CLUE about how WHS v.1 decides when to convert the large chunks of space it grabs for the volume's MTF zone (when a new volume is added) into usable file storage space?
I recently had to rebuild my WHS v.1 installation and re-format three 2TB data volumes. The MTF zone on two of those volumes is HUGE!
On two of the three volumes the MTF zone takes from Block 8 to Block 439 out of 3600 total blocks available. That's almost a THIRD of the storage space on a data volume!
It was the same situation on the third data volume, till last week. Then either a scheduled checkdisk or offline Perfectdisk 12 defrag (not sure which) ran on the third volume and converted all that wasted space in the MTF zone to usable storage space.
I can't figure out for the life of me what's different about that third data volume that triggered NTFS to repurpose all that wasted space.
Does any body have a clue what signals NTFS to repurpose all that wasted MTF zone space on data volumes?
Dr. Bob Blomeyer
Online Teaching Associates