RE: Exchange 2003 store size mystery
- From: "Michael B. Smith" <michael@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 19:53:49 -0400
"eseutil /ms <dbname>" will give you the full space utilization layout
of your database.
It's pretty easy to write a WMI script that shows you dumpster contents
too, if you really think that that might be an issue. Check out the
Exchange_MailBox class of WMI.
-----Original Message-----
From: A. Michael Salim [mailto:msalim@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 6:18 PM
To: [ExchangeList]
Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Exchange 2003 store size mystery
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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
>
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>
> 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
>
>
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