Today our WSUS server wanted be a pain and inform us that its content folder has reached 120 GB.
After running the Server Cleanup Wizard from the MMC, we found that we needed to have more space cleaned up.
The server is a Virtual Machine, so adding additional space and extending the partition is always easy. However, we want to avoid continually adding space and extending the partition since we can use the valuable SAN space for more important services.
We are able to clean it up by stopping the WSUS service, delete all the folders and their contents from the content directory. Then from command prompt C:\Program Files\Update Services\Tools, we ran "wsusutil.exe reset".
This allowed the server to then re-download the content and only get what it should need. This can take some time since there is an enormous amount of updates out there to get for our over 1,500 multi-OS systems. The last time we did this was about 8 months ago, so it helped for quite a while before needing to be run again. I will have to do some investigating to see if anyone has a script out there to perform a cleanup every few months.
From here I will monitor the server and if it continues to grow unreasonably, I will probably fire up a 2008 R2 box and start new so we get it off of the 2003 box anyway.
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