Article ID: 328679
Article Last Modified on 2/27/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Standard Edition
- Microsoft Exchange 2000 Enterprise Server
This article was previously published under Q328679
SYMPTOMS
The Exchange database may dismount, and you may receive the following entry in the Event log:
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.
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 How to Use Convert.exe to Convert a Partition to NTFS
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