Just took a look at the log file folder for my company's MOSS 2007 server and found that the log file folder was taking up
33GB of disk space. In one day the log files added up to over 17GB! Now I am all for information but really, what were the SharePoint guys thinking? Oh, did I mention, this is a test server which was not even being used by anyone other than me at the time?
Now I did check the docs on MSDN. They state:
If you do not want to use the usage analysis features, you can turn off the usage analysis log to conserve hard-disk space (although the log files themselves are not large). If you decide that you do want to use these features, you can turn the log processing on again. Note that each time the log file is processed, the data is appended to the original log. If you want to conserve disk space, you should turn off usage analysis before it has been run the first time. This option is available only on the Microsoft Windows platform.
Some understatement! So as I said in the title, if you find yourselves running out of disk space on your MOSS server, check out
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\LOGS
Obviously changing drives/file locations as appropriate.
Hope that helps…