Re: Exchange 2000 Question

  • From: Chris Wall <Chris.Wall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'[ExchangeList]'" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 11:50:25 -0400

Thanks to all...

Chris

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The exchange offline defrag doesn't work.
You have to do a offline defrag.
Firstly you have to unmount the store and use ESEUTIL /d <database name>.(
The defrag option does not do any compression. It simply recovers unused
buckets from the database, which tend to build up over time.)However keep in
mind that buckets will be re-used when ever possible. Unless disk space is
really critical I wouldn't do a defrag as part of "normal" maintenance,
during this process the database in unavailable to your users. You can do
this using the eseutil /d command which is found in the exchsrvr\bin
directory

Its a good idea to keep the OS and mail databases seperate. Follow this link
to move the database. http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/MF001.html


Regards
Ponnappa
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i|Nautix Technologies India Private Limited

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Hello all,
    Below is a message from a buddy of mine who is not an Exchange admin,
but has been put in charge of a datacenter that happens to run Exchange
2000.  As a 5.5 admin, I would like to get someone else's opinion before
recommending a solution to him....

Thanks,
Chris
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Hey man,
>
> I have a question about Exchange maybe you can help me with:
>
> 1.  The exchange database files a few months ago were around 2-3 G, 
> suddenly they jumped to 9 G in the last month or so.  No one has 
> really been using email and after checking the mailbox sizes it 
> doesn't add up
to
> 9G.  Does exchange 2K automatically run a defrag on the database or is 
> that something I need to do manually?  Have you heard of any reason 
> why the database size would just jump in size like that?  I have been 
> looking for log files and other crap that might be filling the files 
> up but most of that is disabled.  I can't find anything on the 
> msexchange.org site or Microsoft's site.  Maybe the database is just 
> that large all the sudden but it seems fishy. I am running a backup of 
> the entire database and need to play with the server for a bit.
>
> 2.  Have you ever moved the default mailbox location?  I have a D 
> drive with 45 G free so I figured I could just move the mailboxes to 
> that drive and leave the C drive alone for the OS.  Would that be a 
> good plan or should we just extend the C drive out?
>
>

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