exchange filling up c drive:

[jakess]

the server on which exhange 5.5 sp3 is installed keep on running out of disk space.the mailboxes are on the d drive.<br>any idea what is causing this or what can i delete?<br>i'm using a 1 gb partition and have only NT server and exchange on it.

 

[lardum]

Do you have circular logging enabled? If not, then it's possible that the logs keep filling up your C-drive.<br><br>Regards<br><br>Lars<br>

 

[jakess]

thanks for your input,but where do i find this feature?

 

[lardum]

Hi,<br><br>Open Exchange Admin, go down the structure and mark (in the left pane) the server where you have the problem. Click File/properties. In the dialogue box that appears, open the tab called Advanced, there you have two checkboxes, one for Directory and one for Information Store. If these are unmarked then your logfiles can be huge... If they are marked they won't grow over 5 MB each.<br><br>Regards<br><br>Lars<br>

 

[dhalerci]

I would be surprised if circular logging is the problem if the data, and therefore the Information Store and Directory Store, subdirectories are located on his larger &quot;C&quot; drive. Sounds like something else is going on. Also, I think Exchange has circular logging turning on by default. The only reason we turned it of was to allow for Brick Backups in ArcServe when we want to run a differential backup.<br><br>David

 

[lardum]

Thats correct, Exchange does this by default, turns on Circular Logging, but who knows, this would be the first thing i would check, since he says the mailboxes are located on the D-drive.<br><br>Regards<br><br>Lars

 

[dhalerci]

Lars,<br><br>Agree when I realized he must be saying his stores are on the &quot;D&quot; drive and I'm guessing the logs are on the &quot;C&quot; drive, however, I thought the important logs were within the same subdirectories as the stores, which in his case would be the &quot;D&quot; drive which appears to have enough space. Hum ???<br><br>David

 

[jakess]

the two checkboxes are both marked, so i don't realy know what next to check.as you (lars)have always been very helpful here is another question....<br>when i delete a mailbox from &quot;recipients&quot; it seems that the mailbox still exists under the &quot;information store&quot; and that it is growing all the time...some up to 80 mb already.<br>i am unable to delete these old mailboxes<br><br>thanx david and lars

 

[lardum]

Run DS/IS consistency checker first of all. <br><br>I would also try to run a manual defrag, this is done by:<br>ESEUTIL /d /ds /tc:\exchsrvr\dbbackup /p <br><br>Where:<br>/DS = The directory<br>/ISPRIV = Information Store (Mailboxes)<br>/ISPUB = Information Store (Public Folders) <br><br>Be sure that you have enough disk space free, since the defrag creates a copy of the database when running.<br><br>Also check the Windows NT Event viewer for defrag results during the automatic maintenance schedule. <br><br>Regards<br><br>Lars