Sql Server 2012:Full Text Catalog taking up all the disk space

We have created full text catalog and index for a pretty large table. The column on which the index is being created has a datatype of varchar(max). The problem started as soon as we started populating the catalog. It almost grew to 835GB and Population
status stuck to "Processing Notification". I think is status code 9 which corresponds with
the "Change tracking" status in the SQL. It gets stuck in this status almost for ever.
Is there a way to deal with this huge catalog size, may be shrink it or move it to a different location.
Is switching off Change Tracking going to improve the situation.
Any help regarding this will be highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Saikat

Hello,
There could be considerable amount of indexes on that catalog and the effect of the merge over them. Try the index size property of
the following function:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms190370(v=sql.110).aspx
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