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Please let us know apart from the exchange DB's what else is occupying the disk space, to clear space in exchange DB follow this.... <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/328804" rel="ugc nofollow">https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/328804</a>
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I will follow your suggestions and see what I can do. The disk space I have available is 3.25GB out of 406GB. I don't think I have enough free disk space avaliable to do the offline defrag. I have deleting old mailboxes and terminated users but the size never really goes down. I have set retention to 0 for both deleted files and mailboxes and still no free space recovered but I don't think it will recover that space until I do the Offline defrag. I think. <br />
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In order to get the mail box stores up an running I deleted about 3.5GB from that drive which was reinstall disks but if that drive fills up again I will have nothing to delete and then I will be dead in the water. <br />
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What alternatives do i have. I contemplated going and getting an external drive and moving each store to that drive then defaging that store then placing it back on the main drive but don't know if that would work or if I am playing with Fire.<br />
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Suggestions?
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I have an exchange 2003 server where the data drive has been all used up and the stores have been dismounted. I have deleted files on the drive to give it about 3GB of space but am worried it will fill up fast and I wont be able to recover any more data. What can I do to reduce the size of the databases? With the retention of mailboxes after they have been deleted how can I recover data space.
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I have an exchange 2003 server where the data drive has been all used up and the stores have been dismounted. I have deleted files on the drive to give it about 3GB of space but am worried it will fill up fast and I wont be able to recover any more data. What can I do to reduce the size of the databases? With the retention of mailboxes after they have been deleted how can I recover data space.

Exchange 2003 server Data drive full

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.