In practice you must dismount your exchange drive or drives and then it's safe to defrag them. Think of Exchange as one huge database. Andrew ________________________________ From: Bruce J. Rose [mailto:brose@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 3:05 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Defrag Hard drive http://www.MSExchange.org/ Anyone know of anyproblems defragging harddrives on an Exchange Server? I know to perform maintenance on the mailbox store you must dismount store but I am wanting to defrag entire harddrives on my exchange server. Thanks Bruce ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp ------------------------------------------------------ Visit TechGenix.com for more information about our other sites: http://www.techgenix.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSEXchange.org Discussion List as: andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Report abuse to listadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx