Disk space eaten up with no files

Stand alone exchange 2013 (virtualized on vmware 5.1) - Windows 2012 R2 Standard edtion
Recently have noticed strange behavior.. of no mails being processed... after troubleshooting reckoned of low disk space on drive where transport queue was...we increased disk size.
Disk size allocated is 60GB
transport queue size is approx 4GB and still it shows only 10GB remaining.. as there is no other content than transport queue files.
Similar is with our database drive.... database size is approx 60GB... (We have enterprise vault hence DB size doesn't increase much)... drive size is 159GB.... but free space is only 13GB... same here no files other than database....(Transaction logs are
in different drive.
Checked if snapshots are there.. or content in recycle bin.. but there is nothing...
how to reclaim this space... or get visibility what is eating up this. so much... we can't keep on increase size of disk...
Cheers VP

First check the database size and log folder size by this command
Get-MailboxDatabase -Status | select ServerName,Name,DatabaseSize,EdbFilePath
Make sure logs are getting truncated by your backup
Please check these if database and log files not consuming the space
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2014/05/13/how-to-clean-up-the-winsxs-directory-and-free-up-disk-space-on-windows-server-2008-r2-with-new-update.aspx
Try server cleanup utility:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/15221.enabling-disk-cleanup-utility-in-windows-server-2012.aspx
Thanks, MAS
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