Though it does not exactly apply in this case, there is a trick I picked up that can sometimes help in drive full situations. If it is a logfile, or in the cases I've used it for, the transaction logs for Exchange, compress the folder they are in. This allows you to start the services again, run a backup, clean/clear the logs, and then uncompress the folder again. The performance hit from compression is tremendous in a production environment, but it can get some free space to work in for recovering the server or at least getting a current backup made before rebuilding.
-Tim VanDeWalle Information Systems/Product Testing Evergreen Technologies, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Oppermann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 8:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 5.5 and folder structure I gave a shout the MS Newsgroups and got an answer, not very explicit but an answer. Thanks for the followup. Matt Oppermann -----Original Message----- From: Lefkovics, William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 2:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 5.5 and folder structure Did you get an answer for this, Matthew? Section 3.27-3.29: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq_sec3.htm William Lefkovics, WLKMMAS, MCSE, A+ -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Oppermann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 9:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 5.5 and folder structure Hi all, I came in to find our primary partition on our exchange server full. There are 3 folders in c:\exchsrvr\imcdata named 'in', 'log', and 'out'. The 'in' and 'out' folders each contain 1.30 GB of data in some type of log file form. The 'log' folder contains 760 MB of data. I do not know the structure of exchange very well, and I am wondering if I can delete the files in these folders. Will they re-replicate? Will this kill the exchnage server? These seem to be the individual transactions that have been processed through the exchange server, but they do not remove themselves. They are not my users mailboxes because I have them setup on another larger partition. Does anyone know what these files are for sure? Thanks in Advance, Matt Oppermann Systems Administrator Symbiotics, Inc. Want to unsub? Do that here: http://www.w2knews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=unsub Need a good FAQ? Try this one first: http://www.ultratech-llc.com/KB/ Want to unsub? Do that here: http://www.w2knews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=unsub Need a good FAQ? Try this one first: http://www.ultratech-llc.com/KB/ Want to unsub? Do that here: http://www.w2knews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=unsub Need a good FAQ? Try this one first: http://www.ultratech-llc.com/KB/
