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From: lynn smith on 7 Aug 2010 02:24 YOu can try the util for this problem or you can defragment your data shift another drive otherwise your data will be lost. and you can use the<a href="http://www.exchangemailboxrepair.com/"> Exchange Mailbox Repair</a> for Recover permanently and corrupted deleted Exchange mailboxes and emails. Andy Desborough wrote: SBS2003 Exchange mailbox store drive full 26-Mar-10 Hi all, Having problems due to lack of space on a customers D drive which runs out of space and dismounts the mailbox store. I have deleted emails and cleared space, which only creates a 100Mb or so. Presumably I now need to eseutil /d but there is not enough free space on D: drive to do this with the mailbox store being around 20Gb. There is an additional data drive installed, so if I dismount the store and do a Eseutil /d /t "f:\temp.edb" will this do the defrag and then copy back/reduce the size of the original file, or do I then need to delete and copy back the temp over to the original? Generally is it safe to copy/delete/move these files around as long as the mailbox store is dismounted? Thanks, Andy. Previous Posts In This Thread: On Friday, March 26, 2010 5:49 AM Andy Desborough wrote: SBS2003 Exchange mailbox store drive full Hi all, Having problems due to lack of space on a customers D drive which runs out of space and dismounts the mailbox store. I have deleted emails and cleared space, which only creates a 100Mb or so. Presumably I now need to eseutil /d but there is not enough free space on D: drive to do this with the mailbox store being around 20Gb. There is an additional data drive installed, so if I dismount the store and do a Eseutil /d /t "f:\temp.edb" will this do the defrag and then copy back/reduce the size of the original file, or do I then need to delete and copy back the temp over to the original? Generally is it safe to copy/delete/move these files around as long as the mailbox store is dismounted? Thanks, Andy. On Friday, March 26, 2010 9:22 AM Larry Struckmeyer[SBS-MVP] wrote: Depending on the size and relibilty of the extra drive, I might considerjust Depending on the size and relibilty of the extra drive, I might consider just moving the exchange data to the other drive. You could also use windirstat to find what is taking all the space and see if you can recover some. Lots of space eaters can be trimmed. lastly, purging the exchange data base of whitespace only postpones the problem. As more mail is added it will grow again. Clearing out the dedicated but unused space inside of the edb files will give you some breathing room, but how much is dependent on what you have deleted. Are the users storing attachments? Clear them out. - Larry Please post the resolution to your issue so others may benefit - Get Your SBS Health Check at www.sbsbpa.com On Friday, March 26, 2010 12:41 PM Andy Desborough wrote: Thanks for the reply. Thanks for the reply. I have been thoroughly through all the directories many times in the past and now of the 25Gb partiton just over 24Gb is the email folders. The majority of this email was in use by 3 users who've I have got to clear a good few Gb's of their junk but this obviously has not freed up any space on the DB size, hence why I am thinking of the eseutil option. I am primarily looking just to tide them over until we can get their email hosted externally so long term is not a problem. The extra drive is just a SATA drive instead of the RAID5 array so I'd rather not move the DB there if possible. Could you please just confirm the process if I were to us it as a temporary thing? i.e. Dismount store exchsrvr\bin\eseutil /d "D:\Exchsrvr\Mdbdata\priv1.edb" /tf:\temp.edb once the process is finished, delete(or move) the original priv.edb out and copy the temp.edb back to D:\Exchsrvr\Mdbdata\priv1.edb Delete log files Mount store Do a backup Thanks, Andy. "Larry Struckmeyer[SBS-MVP]" wrote: On Friday, March 26, 2010 4:46 PM SteveB wrote: An offline defrag requires you have 110% of free space. An offline defrag requires you have 110% of free space. Since you are practically full on that partition already you will have to utilize that SATA drive anyway. The defrag can take a very long time and potentially might fail. it is possible after all of that you would only regain a small amount of space. I'd do as Larry suggests and just move the database using the built in wizard to the SATA drive even though it is not RAID 5 especially since you say this is temporary until they can get external hosted mail setup. On Friday, March 26, 2010 5:08 PM SuperGumby [SBS MVP] wrote: also, you move the store in Exchange System Manager WHEN THE STORE ISONLINE. also, you move the store in Exchange System Manager WHEN THE STORE IS ONLINE. The move process itself dismounts the store, moves the edb/stm pairs, and remounts them. additionally, in respect of performance, NTFS: works well with >40% free space. starts to get impacted at about 30% free space. is heavily impacted at 20% free space. begs for mercy at 10% free space. regardless of absolute values. a 20GB store _requires_ a partition >30GB. a 20GB partition should have a store no larger than 14GB, roughly. if the partition contains only the store. On Saturday, March 27, 2010 1:25 AM kj [SBS MVP] wrote: 1) Full, verified backup *first* ! 1) Full, verified backup *first* ! 2) Make sure users empty their deleted items folder. 3) reduce the deleted item /mailbox recovery time to 0 4) allow at least one Exchange maitenance cycle. 5) another full Exchange Backup Then proceed. - A lot of work just to get back a few GB of space. Andy Desborough wrote: -- /kj On Tuesday, March 30, 2010 9:12 PM Ab wrote: Yes, you are basically correct - just ran this myself on a shrinking volume.1. Yes, you are basically correct - just ran this myself on a shrinking volume. 1. Stop the Information Store service 2. Run the command line you have 3. Restart the Information Store service It will probably take a couple of hours - depends on the speed of your system. Note the defrag command deletes original and copies the defragged priv1.edb back itself - you do not need to do that. Andy Desborough wrote: On Wednesday, March 31, 2010 8:43 AM v-robme wrote: Hello Andy,Thanks for your post and others' suggestions. Hello Andy, Thanks for your post and others' suggestions. First of all, I agree that it is better to extend your storage by adding other drives and move the Exchange server database to bigger disk drive as long term solution. How to manually move the database file location in Exchange Server 2003) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/821915/en-us Meanwhile, just for your reference, you may manually remove transaction log files that are not required to reduce database size and then perform offline defragment etc. How to remove Exchange Server transaction log files http://support.microsoft.com/kb/240145/en-us Note, this article also contains information about deleting the transaction log files. In a worst-case disaster scenario, you may not be able to recover all your data without the log files if the database becomes corrupted. Transaction log files provide a high level of recoverability. Therefore, you should only perform the procedure that is discussed in this article as a last resort in emergency situations if you cannot complete a full backup. A full backup permanently deletes the committed logs automatically after backing them up. Hope this helps. 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