OUT OF DISK SPACE

[Frankenherder]

Well, it finaly happened. We have ran out of space on our K drive which is a 38GB mail only partition.

We have 0 KB of free space, the mail store is down and will not start.
I am doing an offline defrag in the hopes it will free some space but who knows???

Question, in the event it does not work, is it at all possible to plug in a 100GB drive into the USB port and run the mail store from there temporarily?

Thanks
Matt

 

[58sniper]

A USB drive is going to be very poor performance. If you're doing an offline defrag (not sure why you'd want to do that), then you have space somewhere for it to create the temp database. I would have likely just updated the paths for the databases and remounted them on that space.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822676

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/

 

[Frankenherder]

so are you saying that I can map a drive to a remote UNC path then choose that path for the .edb and .stm database locations?

I did an offline defrag because yesterday I used a policy to delete all messages in the sent and deleted items that are over 120 days old. That freed up 5 GB of space.

I cannot use that space until the Maintenance works to claim the white space.

Does this make sense? We have been doing this for about 2 years now but somehow we used up 1.5 GB of mail space today.

Thanks
Matt

 

[Frankenherder]

OK got a temp band aid. at least we are up. I broke a mirror on another server, put the drive in, partitioned it, formatted it and moved the streaming DB there.

Once I see all the 5GB out of the deleted item retention, I will run an offline defrag, recover the space, and move the streaming back and replace the HD into the mirror. Then I start shopping for more exchange storage or an archiving solution.

Thanks for the feedback everyone
Matt

 

[58sniper]

Properly configured, it should be impossible for an Exchange server to run out of space on the database volume.

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/

 

[Frankenherder]

Thanks for the insight

Matt