HARD DRIVE FULL

[AGA]

I have an Exchange 2000 on Windows 2000 SP 4, This morning I had a problem starting all the services for exchange and found out that the Hard disk is full.I did try to free up space for exchange server to work normally but what I found was MDBDATA is taking about 22GB of space. Someone told me to run the NTBACKUP and that will clear the log files from MDBDATA. Can someone tell me that correct procedure for regaining space from MDBDATA.

Thanks

 

[Trackhappy]

There isn't a correct procedure as such. You need to move something off the drive to get some free space to work with. How big is the swap file? I have decreased it before today or moved it to another drive to get enough.
Once you get the store to load then run your backup to commit and purge the logs (if you don't have circular logging enabled). If that doesn't work, then you have more fun ahead. Clean out unwanted amil and then defrag the database. Note though, that you should keep at least as much free space as the size of the database, as a database repair (if you have to run it) makes a copy of the file when it runs. If I recall the defrag doens't. Other than that, add a drive and span the volume to add it to your disk space.
Good luck.

 

[reepa]

Hi

What i would do is add an additional drive and then move the database over to that drive, in exchange system manger simply change the location and that will move the database, but you should defrag the database anyway, run esutil to defrag it, go to microsfot.com and search for esutil for the readme on usage.

 

[AGA]

Should I Run Defrag with Exchange 2000. IS there any way to exclude Exchange 2000 files.

 

[Trackhappy]

It's not the Windows Defrag we are tlking about. It's an exchnage tool with a defrag switch that defrags the database and recovers free space. Whe data is removed from a mailbox, the database isn't re-sized, so you don't gain any space without doing a defrag/compact.