I think Tony needs to understand that the 50MB free space is what they call "white space". When stuff is deleted, the size of the Exchange database on disk does not shrink. Whatever was deleted is replaced with white space, and can be used when the database grows again. This is a more efficient way of managing the database than continually changing the on-disk size.
Obviously you've seen the 1221 message appear in your Event Log. What that means is that if you were to perform an offline defrag, your database size (as seen in Windows Explorer) would be about 50MB smaller. You would only consider performing an offline defrag if you were to reclaim a significant amount of disk space (like several GB or something). It does not mean you only have 50MB free space (on disk) - that can be determined using Windows Explorer. Sakti -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 4 September 2004 3:04 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: offline defragmentation Why are you bothering with an offline defrag when you are only at 3.7GB? That's not even half the max for standard edition. The normal online defrag should do it's job for you. J -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Saysell Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 1:38 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: offline defragmentation Well done - I can read to! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Scharff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 1:46 PM Subject: RE: offline defragmentation It's a 3.7GB database. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:bounce- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Saysell > Posted At: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 3:13 AM > Posted To: swynk > Conversation: offline defragmentation > Subject: Re: offline defragmentation > > To really make the most of an offline defrag make sure that your deleted > items retention time 0 days or manually deleted the deleted files by > clicking on deleted items icon in outlook and chosing 'recover deleted > items' from the tools menu, then run your offline defrag. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Martin Blackstone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 4:04 PM > Subject: RE: offline defragmentation > > > > You're wasting time. That 50 MB is going to get eaten up by new mail > > quickly. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony > > Nguyen > > Sent: 08/31/2004 8:03 AM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: offline defragmentation > > > > What is the rule of thumb for running a offline defragmentation? 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