Disk space utilization too fast

Dear All,

I am running Exchange 2013 on two Servers. One is CAS and other is Mailbox server and both servers have different partitions. On mailbox server OS installed on has C drive, D drive has mailbox and E has logs files. I noticed that on C drive disk space is reducing too quickly that has 150 GB space which is now 20 GB remaining. I would like to know which services or logs are increasing on C drive that are utilizing too fast.

Any idea how to remove the old logs files to increase the drive space.

Thanks

August 7th, 2015 8:45am

My guess is it's the mail que folder that's increasing in size; it has to do with safety net.  Check the default location and see what the size is; my guess it it's pretty large.  If so, follow these directions to move the location elsewhere: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb125177%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147
August 7th, 2015 8:51am

Hi,

For your question, please ensure which folder always increase, it more helpful for further troubleshooting.

I find an similar thread about "Exchange 2013 TransportRoles\Data\Temp filling up disk":
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/c14861ab-cc0f-4c01-ad50-5427ae3ced23/exchange-2013-transportrolesdatatemp-filling-up-disk

The problem folder is c:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\TransportRoles\data\Temp, also mail.que file.

Hope it will

August 10th, 2015 7:09am

Hi,

For your question, please ensure which folder always increase, it more helpful for further troubleshooting.

I find an similar thread about "Exchange 2013 TransportRoles\Data\Temp filling up disk":
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/c14861ab-cc0f-4c01-ad50-5427ae3ced23/exchange-2013-transportrolesdatatemp-filling-up-disk

The problem folder is c:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\TransportRoles\data\Temp, also might by mail.que file.

Hope it will help.

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August 12th, 2015 3:22am

Hi,

Thanks for the update and hope this will help. I have concern that I am running in coexistence with Exchange 2010 and now few users are left on Exchange 2010 which might be migrated in some days on Exchange 2013. Can I move the Temp or mail queue folder in Exchange 2013 on other location and this will not interrupt my running coexistence with Exchange 2010. Please guide as my partition size is increasing.

Thanks.

August 13th, 2015 7:25am

Moving either of those should not impact your migration/coexistence. Sometimes Exchange admins will move those to their own partitions, that way they don't affect anything else.
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August 13th, 2015 8:38am

Hi B0ndoo,

Thanks for your valuable feedback and guidance. I moved the Temp and Queue mail on other partition. The only queue mail was around 5 GB which created some space but it was not enough and required more space to get the server in stable position. The Bin folder have around 7 GB space and have many other folders in it and checked that a lot of log files were generating in every folder. Is there any way to delete old log files from folders that are in Bin directory.

The other part is migrated users from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 and the database size was too much as the actual users mailbox size. How can we reduce the database size and get it normal with the actual users mailbox size. Pleas guide.

Thanks.

 

August 20th, 2015 12:55am

I checked on one of my servers and  I see about 4GB of log files in the Bin folder underneath search -> ceres -> diagnostics -> logs.  Our logs only go back 2 weeks and we're not manually deleting them so they must be automatically managed.

I'm not sure what you mean by "The other part is migrated users from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 and the database size was too much as the actual users mailbox size. How can we reduce the database size and get it normal with the actual users mailbox size".

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August 20th, 2015 8:42am

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