Re: disk space decrease at rapid rate

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From: Dave Nickason [SBS MVP] (gwdibble_at_NOSPAM.frontiernet.net)
Date: 07/22/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 19:40:12 -0400

One thing you could do is to try searching for files created in the past 24
hours. If no likely suspects appear, do a search for files modified in the
past 24 hours. I'd set a minimum file size on the latter search, which will
bring hundreds if not thousands of results. I'd look for log files first -
maybe something is going on that's causing an unusual amount of logging,
something is creating a debug log, or similar. Look at your IIS and ISA
logs, badmail folder, and temp folders (c:\temp, c:\winnt\temp, and all the
ones in the user profiles). And of course the users shared folders - can
someone be adding an unusual amount of content to data stored on the server?

When you say "excluding data from email messages," I'm assuming you're
excluding your whole Exchange database directory. As you probably know,
Exchange creates log files that don't go away until you do an Exchange-aware
backup. I mention this only because it seems to be a common cause of the
problem you describe.

"Richard" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:273501c47042$f28b1490$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> I'm running SB 2000. Disk space was decresing by at lease
> 5mb a day, excluding any data from email messages. In one
> 4 days period, the disk space decrease by 28mb. There is
> nothing running except for the email. Is there any
> maintenance jobs that I have to run every day ? I did
> delete or clean up the badmail from time to time. Can
> anyone help on this. Thanks.

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