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by jmoody76

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We are running Small Business Server 4.5 and are running out of disk space on one of the partitions. The partition that is running out of space is a little over 4GB and the Exchange priv.edb uses all but 100MB. We want to purchase a new hard drivebut the question is will that help. I know some operating systems have a limit on the size of a partition. Does SBS uses NTFS and how big can a partition be? Thanks.

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by timwalsh

SBS uses NT4 as its Server operating system. Therefore it does use NTFS. NTFS can support up to a 16 TB partition.

If you plan on moving the Exchange information store to the new drive, make sure you use the Exchange Performance Optimizer tool to do so.

by cactus pete

If you have the time, and other resources on the network, you might consider some mailbox maintenance. See how many users will delete emails that have large attachments, the contents of the sent items folder, and then [of course] actually empty thedeleted items folder. Then you need to use eseutil [as discussed in MS KB article Q192185]. Perform a full backup [and verify it worked] before attempting to do anything like this.

I don't know how many, or what kind of users you have, but you may just need to better maintain the exchange database. At any rate, the utility will tell you if you're really using all of that space or not, and you'll get an idea of just how much junk the users are keeping.

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