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by cad

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I have small office server running exchange server. My problem is that on my C: drive and the M: drive I have barely 1 gigabite of space left. I have instructed the users to maintain their mail boxes at a minimum use, moving their messaes to local folder on their systems, but this seems no to help anyway. What I don't understand is that I have a 20 gig hd. why it is almost full already if I only have small bussines server, and I don't think this will take a hole 20 gigs.

Is there any suggestions to clean up the M drive or make more space, whitout having to change the H.D since it will be a nightmare to do.

The server is a Dell poweredge with two 20gig HD mirrored.

Thanks in advance for your help

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by oz_media

You may want to start by purging the systems deleted files and temporary files.

You say that your C and M drives have less than a gig left. Your C drive is easily cleaned up by running the Disk Cleanup from START>PROGRAMS>ACCESSORIES>SYSTEM TOOLS (if you are running XP the path may differ slightly).

I like to run a file find for anything OVER 10 megs and then seeing WHAT is taking up the most space, eg. Win98 has fonts installed that I've never seen used that are over 25 megs! I delete these as I'd never use them. As well as stray files, zips and unzipped programs, audio, Internet Media downloads etc.

For your server, not being a MS guy, all I can suggest is looking for large files, overloaded HOME directories and cleaning/purging files from the server.

by chrisdent

One final suggestion.

Shift some of the users out to PST files instead of holding the e-mail on the exchange server.

Its a common problem that users use the e-mail system as a filing system.

Doing this does lose the single instance storage, but is the most reliable method to free up space.

Of course you should be aware that you can't back up the PSTs as easily, and that PSTs have a maximum size of 2 Gb, over that and the only way to recover them is to trim parts off the file.

Finally, I'm sure you're aware, but with Exchange 2000 the M: drive and the C: drive are one and the same. Either running out of space will break the server.

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