Article ID: 328679 - Last Review: February 27, 2007 - Revision: 4.2

Exchange Database Dismounts When Exchange Database File Is Four Gigabytes

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SYMPTOMS

The Exchange database may dismount, and you may receive the following entry in the Event log:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: ESE98
Event Category: General
Event ID: 482
Date: date
Time: time
User: N/A
Computer: EXCHANGE
Description:
Information Store (2512) An attempt to write to the file "C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\SG02-DATA\MDBDATA\SG2PRIV1.edb" at offset 4294963200 (0x00000000fffff000) for 405504 (0x00063000) bytes failed with system error 112 (0x00000070): "There is not enough space on the disk.". The write operation will fail with error -1808 (0xfffff8f0). If this error persists then the file may be damaged and may need to be restored from a previous backup.

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CAUSE

This issue may occur if you are using a FAT32 partition, and the Exchange database file is approaching four gigabytes (GB). The issue occurs because the FAT32 file system has a maximum permitted file size of 4 GB.

NOTE: Although FAT32 supports 32 GB partitions, the maximum file size is 4 GB.

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WORKAROUND

To work around this issue, convert the partition to an NTFS file system to support file sizes that are larger than 4GB.

For additional information about how to convert a FAT32 partition to NTFS, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

214579 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/214579/EN-US/ ) How to Use Convert.exe to Convert a Partition to NTFS

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