Microsoft KB Archive/305197

= Problems When Drive That Contains the Ntds.dit Database and Log Files Has Low Amount of Free Disk Space =

Article ID: 305197

Article Last Modified on 10/31/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 1
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 2
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 2

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This article was previously published under Q305197



SYMPTOMS
A Windows 2000 domain controller may be unable to update one or more Active Directory partitions after it receives a change notification from a replication partner. Also, the domain controller may log an event of the following type in the Directory Services log for each Active Directory partition it attempted to replicate:

Event Type: Error

Event Source: NTDS Replication

Event Category: Replication

Event ID: 1480

Date: date

Time: time

User: Everyone

Computer: computer name

Description:

Replication error: The directory replication agent (DRA) couldn't update object

CN=Partitions,CN=Configuration,DC=computer name,DC=sjz,DC=navisite-int,DC=com (GUID 956291ad-65a5-4b0e-aa66-e1ad981ddd6c)

on this system with changes which have been received from source server 84df4dfc-87ce-488f-a49e-5de415d58963._server name.com.

The disk containing the database is full. Please free up some space on the disk by deleting unnecessary files or moving them to another volume. If the disk is a RAID set, you may be able add additional disks to increase the storage. If the database files and logs are co-located, you may want to separate them. You can move either the files or the logs using the ntdsutil utility program.



CAUSE
This issue can occur if the drive that contains the Ntds.dit database and log files ran out of free disk space.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this issue, free some disk space on the drive that contains the Ntds.dit database and log files.

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