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From: Chaplain Doug on 30 Mar 2010 23:01
Exchange Server 2003. Windows Server 2003.

I need to free up space on my C: drive so I went into Exchange and first
deleted, then ran cleanup agent, then purged mailboxes that amounted to 2.46
GB. When I started I had 3.55 GB free on my drive. When I finished I had
3.33 GB feee. So not only did I not gain the 2.46 GB of free space, I lost
some. What could be going wrong here?
--
Dr. Doug Pruiett
Good News Jail & Prison Ministry
www.goodnewsjail.org
From: Rich Matheisen [MVP] on 31 Mar 2010 00:22
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:01:01 -0700, Chaplain Doug
<ChaplainDoug(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Exchange Server 2003. Windows Server 2003.
>
>I need to free up space on my C: drive so I went into Exchange and first
>deleted, then ran cleanup agent, then purged mailboxes that amounted to 2.46
>GB. When I started I had 3.55 GB free on my drive. When I finished I had
>3.33 GB feee. So not only did I not gain the 2.46 GB of free space, I lost
>some. What could be going wrong here?

Removing data from the database frees up space inside the database but
it doesn't make the file any smaller. To do that you'd have to run
eseutil with the "/d" option.

You should also look for a 1221 event in the application log to see
how much free space is in the database. That's figure is a
conservative estimate of how much the database will shrink.
---
Rich Matheisen
MCSE+I, Exchange MVP
From: Chaplain Doug on 31 Mar 2010 08:14
Thanks. I read up on the utility, used it, and freed up about 10GB.
--
Dr. Doug Pruiett
Good News Jail & Prison Ministry
www.goodnewsjail.org


"Rich Matheisen [MVP]" wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:01:01 -0700, Chaplain Doug
> <ChaplainDoug(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >Exchange Server 2003. Windows Server 2003.
> >
> >I need to free up space on my C: drive so I went into Exchange and first
> >deleted, then ran cleanup agent, then purged mailboxes that amounted to 2.46
> >GB. When I started I had 3.55 GB free on my drive. When I finished I had
> >3.33 GB feee. So not only did I not gain the 2.46 GB of free space, I lost
> >some. What could be going wrong here?
>
> Removing data from the database frees up space inside the database but
> it doesn't make the file any smaller. To do that you'd have to run
> eseutil with the "/d" option.
>
> You should also look for a 1221 event in the application log to see
> how much free space is in the database. That's figure is a
> conservative estimate of how much the database will shrink.
> ---
> Rich Matheisen
> MCSE+I, Exchange MVP
> .
>
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