Exchange apparently eating up drive space

[mcleodal]

A client of mine seems to have an abnormally sized exchange database file, which is eating into the disk space. He has already got users to clear out old e-mails from their mailboxes in Outlook. Has anyone got any thoughts based on the following information:

C: drive - 16 GB capacity 286MB free

Within MDBDATA folder:
priv1.edb - 5.18GB priv1.stm - 3.26GB

26 Mailboxes - 3.3GB in total

Other files (OS stuff etc...)- approx 3.5-4GB

1.6GB pagefile

The .log files get flushed when the backup runs.

Based on the above info, does this sound normal? If not, can anyone suggest why the exchange database files appear to be so big?

I was thinking that using autoarchive in Outlook might help to reduce the size of the exchange database files.

Hope this isn't too vague a description.

 

[Zelandakh]

Exchange won't reduce by deleting emails. That is the job of offline defrag.

Move the Exchange database to another volume. Definitely move the page file to another volume. 8GB isn't abnormal!