RE: Reclaiming Disk Space

[EALES, Jack / RSAIFS - IOM]

I believe you can specify ANY location for temporary use during defrag, - you specify the path in the switches for the exe. It doesn't need to be an Exchange Server, but network speed and disk performance become issues in this situation....

 

But remember, before you even consider this sort of work... BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP - OK??

-----Original Message-----
From: Duncan Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 07 September 2001 11:42
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Reclaiming Disk Space

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Hi,

 

I have Exchange 5.5 installed on a Dell poweredge 2300,  The server has 2 x 9Gb drives mirrored with two partitions 2Gb and 6.45Gb.  Exchange is installed to the first partition and the mailboxes reside on the second partition.

 

Ok, the server is continually running out of disk space, so everything shuts down, if I look at the mailbox resources in the Admin tool it reports that the internet mails ervice mailbox is just short of 1Gb, how do you view, clear this down? 

 

Also I believe that the whitespace can be cleared down from the database but requires 110% of the database size, can I install Exchange to another server with bags of disk space, recover whitespace and move databases back to the original server? (and no I can't move Exchange to the other server permanently!!)

 

 

Thanks

 

Duncan

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