Not enough disk space left on C:

10 Feb 2009 6:39 PM

soarango@gmail.com

Hello All - Our mail server was poorly designed by having the C: drive
partition set to only 10GB (don't ask, I don't know either). We are
having all sorts of issues, but my main concern is our Exchange
database (granted is very small now < 4GB) which sits on the C:
partition. The E: drive (where data resides) is about 200GB or so. We
need to do two things:
1. Resize C: drive (know of any solid tools do so on a Windows 2003
SMB SP2 server?)
2. Move the Exchange database and files to E: to provide for future
growth
My approach would be to run (2) full backups, rebuild the partitions
from scratch (yes, reloading Windows) and starting new (very afraid!).
Your help and wisdom greatly appreciated in advance. Kind regards,

11 Feb 2009 12:10 AM

John Oliver, Jr. [MVP]

Partitioning Majic is a great tool for this but the Server version is quite
expensive. If you have an extra swing box/server, I would look at this
method as it keeps everything fairly clean. I assumed this was Exchange
2003?

--
John Oliver, Jr
MCSE, MCT, CCNA
Exchange MVP 2009
Microsoft Certified Partner

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> Hello All - Our mail server was poorly designed by having the C: drive
> partition set to only 10GB (don't ask, I don't know either). We are
> having all sorts of issues, but my main concern is our Exchange
> database (granted is very small now < 4GB) which sits on the C:
> partition. The E: drive (where data resides) is about 200GB or so. We
> need to do two things:
> 1. Resize C: drive (know of any solid tools do so on a Windows 2003
> SMB SP2 server?)
> 2. Move the Exchange database and files to E: to provide for future
> growth
> My approach would be to run (2) full backups, rebuild the partitions
> from scratch (yes, reloading Windows) and starting new (very afraid!).
> Your help and wisdom greatly appreciated in advance. Kind regards,

11 Feb 2009 3:15 AM

ArrgosS

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On Feb 10, 7:10 pm, "John Oliver, Jr. [MVP]" <jcolive***@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> Partitioning Majic is a great tool for this but the Server version is quite
> expensive. If you have an extra swing box/server, I would look at this
> method as it keeps everything fairly clean. I assumed this was Exchange
> 2003?
>
> --
> John Oliver, Jr
> MCSE, MCT, CCNA
> Exchange MVP 2009
> Microsoft Certified Partner
>
> <soara***@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:2b2642e6-1cea-4bbf-8ff5-a7954d66c17b@k19g2000yqg.googlegroups.com...
>
> > Hello All - Our mail server was poorly designed by having the C: drive
> > partition set to only 10GB (don't ask, I don't know either). We are
> > having all sorts of issues, but my main concern is our Exchange
> > database (granted is very small now < 4GB) which sits on the C:
> > partition. The E: drive (where data resides) is about 200GB or so. We
> > need to do two things:
> > 1. Resize C: drive (know of any solid tools do so on a Windows 2003
> > SMB SP2 server?)
> > 2. Move the Exchange database and files to E: to provide for future
> > growth
> > My approach would be to run (2) full backups, rebuild the partitions
> > from scratch (yes, reloading Windows) and starting new (very afraid!).
> > Your help and wisdom greatly appreciated in advance. Kind regards,

Thanks for your response. When you say a box, do you mean any box with
hard drive space to move Exchange (yes, 2003) to it and then rebuild?
Sorry, don't follow.

11 Feb 2009 10:20 PM

John Oliver, Jr. [MVP]

Correct, a swing/temp box is what I call it.

--
John Oliver, Jr
MCSE, MCT, CCNA
Exchange MVP 2009
Microsoft Certified Partner

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"ArrgosS" <soara***@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Feb 10, 7:10 pm, "John Oliver, Jr. [MVP]" <jcolive***@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> Partitioning Majic is a great tool for this but the Server version is
> quite
> expensive. If you have an extra swing box/server, I would look at this
> method as it keeps everything fairly clean. I assumed this was Exchange
> 2003?
>
> --
> John Oliver, Jr
> MCSE, MCT, CCNA
> Exchange MVP 2009
> Microsoft Certified Partner
>
> <soara***@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:2b2642e6-1cea-4bbf-8ff5-a7954d66c17b@k19g2000yqg.googlegroups.com...
>
> > Hello All - Our mail server was poorly designed by having the C: drive
> > partition set to only 10GB (don't ask, I don't know either). We are
> > having all sorts of issues, but my main concern is our Exchange
> > database (granted is very small now < 4GB) which sits on the C:
> > partition. The E: drive (where data resides) is about 200GB or so. We
> > need to do two things:
> > 1. Resize C: drive (know of any solid tools do so on a Windows 2003
> > SMB SP2 server?)
> > 2. Move the Exchange database and files to E: to provide for future
> > growth
> > My approach would be to run (2) full backups, rebuild the partitions
> > from scratch (yes, reloading Windows) and starting new (very afraid!).
> > Your help and wisdom greatly appreciated in advance. Kind regards,

Thanks for your response. When you say a box, do you mean any box with
hard drive space to move Exchange (yes, 2003) to it and then rebuild?
Sorry, don't follow.

11 Feb 2009 1:42 PM

Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

soara***@gmail.com wrote:

> Hello All - Our mail server was poorly designed by having the C: drive
> partition set to only 10GB (don't ask, I don't know either). We are
> having all sorts of issues, but my main concern is our Exchange
> database (granted is very small now < 4GB) which sits on the C:
> partition. The E: drive (where data resides) is about 200GB or so. We
> need to do two things:
> 1. Resize C: drive (know of any solid tools do so on a Windows 2003
> SMB SP2 server?)
> 2. Move the Exchange database and files to E: to provide for future
> growth
> My approach would be to run (2) full backups, rebuild the partitions
> from scratch (yes, reloading Windows) and starting new (very afraid!).
> Your help and wisdom greatly appreciated in advance. Kind regards,

Please see the replies in the other thread. The duplicate posts you have in
here are because you're using Google Groups - this is not a good way to
access the newsgroups. Neither is the (icky) Microsof web interface. Try
using a news client, such as Forte Agent, Thunderbird, or even Outlook
Express, instead. It's a lot easier to do nearly everything that way. You
can mark messages to be watched, filter the views so you can see replies to
your posts easily, and search. You can still use Google Groups just for
searching old posts.

The Microsoft public news server is msnews.microsoft.com and you can
subscribe to as many groups as you like; no authentication is required.

The following is from a post by MVP Malke ...

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Here's information on Usenet and using a newsreader:

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page3.html#12-09-02 - a brief
explanation of newsgroups
http://michaelstevenstech.com/outlo...ssnewreader.htm
http://rickrogers.org/setupoe.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...wto/default.asp
- Set Up Newsreader

http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
http://aumha.org/nntp.htm - list of MS newsgroups
microsoft.public.test.here - MS group to test if your newsreader is
working properly
http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm - how to munge email address
http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm - multiposting vs.
crossposting

Some newsreaders for Windows
http://www.forteinc.com/agent/index.php - for Forte
http://www.mozilla.org (Thunderbird does newsgroups)
http://gravity.tbates.org/

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