I am currently running SBS 2003 on a RAID 5 (hardware) server. I have two partitions ... C:(OS) is 10 GB and D:(DATA) is 24 GB. I have set all Exchange DBs to store on the D: drive.
My problem is that C: is down to 400 MB, and seems to be decreasing everyday. I cannot determine what is eating up the disk space. I thought about the paging file, which is set for initial 1920 MB and max 3840 MB (I have 1.25 GB RAM). Should I decrease this file size?
I have PowerQuest Volume Manager 2.0 which I used for Windows Server 2000, but it will not run on SBS 2003. So I cannot resize the partitions at this point.
I'd like for all databases, programs, etc to be located on D: drive. We only have 12 employees here so I figured 36GB should be plenty of space.
Any idea what is causing my disk shortage, and any suggestions to fix the problem? The lack of Volume Manager is now restricting me. Any other tools to resize partitions?
Second, I know you can't separate out Exchange to another box, and would be doubtful if you could put the store on another box... but why would you want to? Why not take the 120GB drive and pop it into the SBS? Assuming that your motherboard still has an available IDE controller, adding another drive to the server would be a great idea. You could also put your swap file on that drive which would free up enough from your C drive to give you breathing room.
Although files on that drive wouldn't be protected by the RAID, it does help get you more space without any additional cost.
I'm a bit confused about your last comment regarding the third server... do you have your user's My Documents folder redirected to that server? If not, you really should consider doing that so you can take advantage of the Shadow Copy feature which allows recovery of previous file versions. But since you aren't keeping data files on the SBS, adding teh 120GB drive should be plenty to keep you going!
Good Luck!
Jeff
TechSoEasy