[itdiscuss] Exchange Taking Unknown Drive Space

Tue May 26 13:13:48 EDT 2009

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[mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of Mark Rock
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 12:06 PM
To: IT Discussion Forum
Subject: Re: [itdiscuss] Exchange Taking Unknown Drive Space

On my Exchange 2007 server, it stores index and sorting files on my Data
drive, it is under the First Storage Group and there is a directory
called catalogdata -xxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx, it goes on and on, it has *.ci,
*.dir, *.wid, *.wsb files in it and there is a lot of data, it might be
a hidden folder on your system.

Mark

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[mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of Dan Barber
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 11:21 AM
To: 'IT Discussion Forum'
Subject: Re: [itdiscuss] Exchange Taking Unknown Drive Space

No shadow copy is turned on for that volume. Using Exchange 2007.

Dan

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[mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of Mark Rock
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 9:53 AM
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Subject: Re: [itdiscuss] Exchange Taking Unknown Drive Space

Dan, 

Do you have the Shadow Copy turn on that drive on the server end?  If
yes, check and see how much space that is using, if you delete that, or
clear some of the older copies that will free up space.  What version of
Exchange are you using?

Mark Rock

Information Systems Director

Lincoln Berean Church

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[mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of Dan Barber
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 8:50 AM
To: 'IT Discussion Forum'
Subject: [itdiscuss] Exchange Taking Unknown Drive Space

Folks,

A strange problem: I have 4 Exchange data stores on my server. They are
segregated onto a DB array and a Log Files array, both separate from the
C Drive. An examination of the file properties gives a total of about
37GB for the data store files (.edb) on the DB array, which is
consistent with the backup size without compression. However, the Disk
Management console says that 101GB is free (out of 250GB), and so
reporting that this disk volume is somehow consuming 150GB instead of
37GB. How is this possible?

I have done everything I can to check for hidden/system files, including
examining the individual file properties both from Windows and the
command prompt. Anyone else have this issue? Any thoughts?

Dan

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