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expanding a partition in exchange 2000

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by eminent87

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Hi,

We have a Dell Poweredge 4400 with exchange server 2000 installed. It also have a partition of C, D and E; 4 gb, 10 gb and 81 gb respectively. There is also the M drive which is a mapped of the C drive when exchange got installed. The problemI'm having is the that all the mailboxes and the public folder are sitting in the M directory, which is part of the C drive; and since C only has 4 gb, it is running out of space (only have 400 mb left). Dell doesn't recommend using server magic to resize it because of the software compatibility issue made by dell. I'm kinda new to exchange server so, I don't want to reinstall the whole thing over just yet. I really need somekind of resolution soon because as the mailbox gets bigger there's less and less space. Does anybody have any suggestion or resolutions?? Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks.

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by timwalsh

There is no need to re-install Exchange. You can actually change the location of the Storage Group containing the public and private information stores using the Exchange System Manager (ESM).

Within ESM, display the properties of the Storage Group containing the information stores, click the Browse button next to the System path location window, and browse to the new location where you want the information stores to exist (probably somplace on the E: drive in your situation).

Realize that once you click Okay or Apply, the storage groups will be immediately dismounted (and users diconnected) without any warning. All information stores within the storage group will remain dismounted until the entire storage group is moved to the new location.

As always, before conducting any operation such as this, make sure you have a GOOD, recent backup - just in case.

Hope this helps.

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