Greetings: > Did you do what I recommended at 8:14 am this morning (eastern time)? No, unfortunately I did not get an email from you at that time. Would you please re-send your recommendation? Thanks! Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: A. Michael Salim [mailto:msalim@xxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 2:28 PM > To: [ExchangeList] > Subject: [exchangelist] Exchange 2003 store size mystery > > http://www.MSExchange.org/ > > Hi all, > > I have a mystery about the size of my mailbox store. I have an Exchange > 2003 Enterprise server with a store size of about 45GB (the .EDB file is > 45GB in size). The mystery is that this is nowhere near what the size > whould be. The store should be no more than 1-2GB in size. Everything > else seems to be fine i.e. the server is receiving and sendimg emails > fine, OWA is fine, RPC/HTTP is fine, OMA is fine, performance seems > fine, no complaints from users. > > However there is some background to the story: This time last week the > store was indeed about 54GB in size. Then it was decided that all > users' > mailboxes would be saved to local PST files and cleared and everyone > will start with a "zero size" mailbox effective Friday (for unrelated > and valid reasons). So on Friday I did a complete backup, then ran > Exmerge in "Archive" mode so that all mailboxes would be saved to PST > files and cleared from the maikbox store. The Exmerge seems to have > gone normally as far as I can tell (all 115 mailboxes succeeded etc.) > and the individual mailboxes did indeed get cleared out as expected, and > each mailbox got saved as expected in a PST file with the old data. But > the mailbox store (.EDB file) size was still 54GB. When viewed in ESM > (Exchange System Manager 2003) the mailboxe sizes are all tiny an do not > add up to even 1GB. > > I noticed this discrepency so I ran eseutil etc. on it defrag the store > (after dismounting the store of course). The defrag ran just fine, no > errors. I remounted the mailbox store. Everything is still running > smoothly. I dismounted and ran "isinteg -fix -test alltests" and that > ran fine too, zero errors/fixes/warnings for all 20 tests first time > around. > And everything is still running just fine and dandy after remount. > > Except that the store EDB file is 45GB in size (it shrank from 54GB to > 45GB but it should have shrunk to maybe 1Gb or 2GB). > > Any clues or suggestions? I do need to get the EDB file size down to > the correct size of 2GB or less. > > Best regards > Mike > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist > Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp > Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ > ------------------------------------------------------ > Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: > World of Windows Networking: http://www.windowsnetworking.com Leading > Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com > No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security > Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: > http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: > http://www.ntfaxfaq.com > ------------------------------------------------------ > You are currently subscribed to this MSEXchange.org Discussion List as: > michael@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit > http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist > Report abuse to listadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > ------------------------------------------------------ > List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist > Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp > Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ > ------------------------------------------------------ > Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: > World of Windows Networking: http://www.windowsnetworking.com > Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com > No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org > Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ > Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ > Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com > ------------------------------------------------------ > You are currently subscribed to this MSEXchange.org Discussion List as: > msalim@xxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist > Report abuse to listadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >