Another Question on Exchange Disk Space

Again, thanks to you all for your input on my question about disk space
for Exchange.

I did an Exchange-aware backup last night and freed up about a half-gig
of space on the M: drive. That still leaves me with only 1.9GB of free
space on my M: drive. But as I understand it from your responses, if
the M: drive is a virtual drive pointer to the Exchange database stored
on my C: drive then the amount of free space on the M: drive is
irrelevant since that's not where the data is stored

If what I said above is correct, then I'm still low on disk space for
Exchange because I have less than 2GB of free space on my C: drive. But
I have almost 40GB of free space on drive F: which is where I store
users' home folders and company folders. Would it be OK to move the
Exchange database to the F: drive under an Exchange folder even though
it's not a partition?

Thanks so much.

Techieluvr

Maverick
Wed May 04 08:42:02 CDT 2005

it should be ok to move the log files and database to f as long as it is a
valid partition, you do this on the properties of the storage group in
exchange system manager. it will dismount the stores. i would try and keep
the log files seperate to the database if at all possible. i presume you did
a full backup of your exchnage and the log files were flushed.

"Techieluvr" wrote:

> Again, thanks to you all for your input on my question about disk space
> for Exchange.
>
> I did an Exchange-aware backup last night and freed up about a half-gig
> of space on the M: drive. That still leaves me with only 1.9GB of free
> space on my M: drive. But as I understand it from your responses, if
> the M: drive is a virtual drive pointer to the Exchange database stored
> on my C: drive then the amount of free space on the M: drive is
> irrelevant since that's not where the data is stored
>
> If what I said above is correct, then I'm still low on disk space for
> Exchange because I have less than 2GB of free space on my C: drive. But
> I have almost 40GB of free space on drive F: which is where I store
> users' home folders and company folders. Would it be OK to move the
> Exchange database to the F: drive under an Exchange folder even though
> it's not a partition?
>
> Thanks so much.
>
> Techieluvr
>
>

Techieluvr
Wed May 04 09:41:24 CDT 2005

Maverick,

Thanks for your reply. The F: drive is on the same partition as the C:
drive. Unfortunately, I should have been smarter about creating more
partitions when I first installed SBS, you know, partitions for os,
apps, data. Since I'm moving the Exchange data only to another drive,
the log files will stay where they are now in the Exchsrvr folder under
C:, won't they?

Techieluvr

Maverick wrote:
> it should be ok to move the log files and database to f as long as it
is a
> valid partition, you do this on the properties of the storage group
in
> exchange system manager. it will dismount the stores. i would try and
keep
> the log files seperate to the database if at all possible. i presume
you did
> a full backup of your exchnage and the log files were flushed.
>
> "Techieluvr" wrote:
>
> > Again, thanks to you all for your input on my question about disk
space
> > for Exchange.
> >
> > I did an Exchange-aware backup last night and freed up about a
half-gig
> > of space on the M: drive. That still leaves me with only 1.9GB of
free
> > space on my M: drive. But as I understand it from your responses,
if
> > the M: drive is a virtual drive pointer to the Exchange database
stored
> > on my C: drive then the amount of free space on the M: drive is
> > irrelevant since that's not where the data is stored
> >
> > If what I said above is correct, then I'm still low on disk space
for
> > Exchange because I have less than 2GB of free space on my C: drive.
But
> > I have almost 40GB of free space on drive F: which is where I store
> > users' home folders and company folders. Would it be OK to move the
> > Exchange database to the F: drive under an Exchange folder even
though
> > it's not a partition?
> >
> > Thanks so much.
> >
> > Techieluvr
> >
> >

Marina
Wed May 04 15:22:38 CDT 2005

How do I move Exchange databases:
http://www.smallbizserver.net/Default.aspx?tabid=60

--
Regards,

Marina Roos
Microsoft SBS-MVP
One of the Magical M&M's
www.smallbizserver.net
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> Maverick,
>
> Thanks for your reply. The F: drive is on the same partition as the C:
> drive. Unfortunately, I should have been smarter about creating more
> partitions when I first installed SBS, you know, partitions for os,
> apps, data. Since I'm moving the Exchange data only to another drive,
> the log files will stay where they are now in the Exchsrvr folder under
> C:, won't they?
>
> Techieluvr
>
> Maverick wrote:
> > it should be ok to move the log files and database to f as long as it
> is a
> > valid partition, you do this on the properties of the storage group
> in
> > exchange system manager. it will dismount the stores. i would try and
> keep
> > the log files seperate to the database if at all possible. i presume
> you did
> > a full backup of your exchnage and the log files were flushed.
> >
> > "Techieluvr" wrote:
> >
> > > Again, thanks to you all for your input on my question about disk
> space
> > > for Exchange.
> > >
> > > I did an Exchange-aware backup last night and freed up about a
> half-gig
> > > of space on the M: drive. That still leaves me with only 1.9GB of
> free
> > > space on my M: drive. But as I understand it from your responses,
> if
> > > the M: drive is a virtual drive pointer to the Exchange database
> stored
> > > on my C: drive then the amount of free space on the M: drive is
> > > irrelevant since that's not where the data is stored
> > >
> > > If what I said above is correct, then I'm still low on disk space
> for
> > > Exchange because I have less than 2GB of free space on my C: drive.
> But
> > > I have almost 40GB of free space on drive F: which is where I store
> > > users' home folders and company folders. Would it be OK to move the
> > > Exchange database to the F: drive under an Exchange folder even
> though
> > > it's not a partition?
> > >
> > > Thanks so much.
> > >
> > > Techieluvr
> > >
> > >
>