Now that’s a smart thing…

Just imagine this… you have a development server that goes out of hard disk space. No problem you delete some unused and temporary files, and you can say problem solved.

Well, that's not quite... if you have Excel Services for SharePoint running... you're may be in trouble. If the Excel Services workbook cache is in the disk that got out of space, then Excel Services will cease working, and just getting the disk free space up won’t solve it. To so that, you will have to restart excel services, by running these commands:

stsadm -o provisionservice -action stop -servicetype "Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.ExcelServerSharedWebService, Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c"

stsadm -o provisionservice -action start -servicetype "Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.ExcelServerSharedWebService, Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c"

After each stsadm command you better issue a IISRESET.

Ok, now you can say problem solved.... but it has token me 2 hours to get it done.