Exchange 2000 M drive confusion

[Andyleates]

Hi

I am a bit confused about the Excahnge M drive.

I am running 2000 Enterprise edition, and the drive that the information store resides on has 170Gb of free disk space.

However, the M drive shows that it is now 98% full, up from 70% six months ago.

Why is this? Do I need to worry? Should I even be monitoring the size of this "virtual drive"

Many thanks for any advice!

Andy

Andy Leates MCSE CCNA MCP+I

 

[Zelandakh]

Andy,
The M drive does not exist. Step AWAY from the computer...

Honestly, ignore it. There is a way to remove the M drive as it was a really bad idea.

 

[rliebsch]

The M drive is a logical imaginary place holder of sorts.
It's usage and capacity should be the same as your C: or system drive.

I would be concerned about it filling up though. System disk full is a "VeryBadThing"

I would check that your Outlook Web Access logs are either deleted or backed up and examined. Search your system32 folder for any *log* files. Back them up then delete them from the system drive.



Robert Liebsch
Stone Yamashita Partners

http://www.stoneyamashita.com/

 

[Andyleates]

Thanks for the reply - the M drive does in deed match the size of my C drive - 16.9Gb. However, the C drive has over 5Gb of free space. The M drive just 56Mb?

Had a look in C:\WINNT\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC1 as suggested - two years worth of log files, but only taking up a couple of hundred meg - what should I be doing with these?

Andy Leates MCSE CCNA MCP+I