Question : Exchange Growth 3 GB overnight

Hello Experts,
I am having a problem with Exchange 2003. Sunday afternoon, the Priv1.edb file had grown 3GB since Friday and had filled up the partition resulting in the mailbox store dismounting. I cleared around 2 GB of space last night and then this morning the priv1.edb had grown enough to fill the drive up again. The priv1.edb is 23 GB now. How can I figure out where the growth is coming from and what can I do to stop it?

Answer : Exchange Growth 3 GB overnight

Ok,
Firstly, run exmon on the server to see what user is causing the problem.
If you do not know on how to use exmon - use this link below
http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Microsoft-Exchange-Server-User-Monitor.html

To insure that you server health is 100% you can use the eseutil command
First make a backup - if you do not know how to use the eseutil command use link below
http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Exchange-ISINTEG-ESEUTIL.html


Make sure you got enought storage space (your mailbox store 23G you have to have around 50G free space)
Create another store or multiple stores - Managers - Directors - Marketing examples.
Then start moving the mailboxes to the other stores that you have created.
Once all done, you can dismount the store and do a offline defrag - this may take a while depending on the space and on the speed of the server.