Did you also check your event log to find out exactly how much white space there was? That should have given you a good idea. Look for event 1221.
Ben Winzenz, MCSE Network/Systems Administrator Peregrine Systems -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 8:29 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Recovering lost space Good Monday morning, Well, I ran eseutil /d over the weekend (ran it on my file server as there was only 6GB free on the drive where my 8GB priv.edb was). My question is if this sounds right to you guys... I took 3GB of mail off the server and into PST files (in other words, the directory on my file server that's holding the 15 or so PST files is about 3GB in size). When I ran eseutil /d, the priv.edb only went from 8GB down to 6.4GB. I was really hoping for about 5GB. Am I dreaming? If so, why? Why wouldn't eseutil actually give back that space that is now in PST files? Thanks, Evan -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 4:17 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Recovering lost space What does running it once a month gain for you?? At the end of every month it is the same size isn't it? What happens to the email while you are offline? You know the longer your exchange server is up, the better it will run? Bla bla bla.. --Kevinm CHFR, M, WLKMMAS, UCC+WCA, And Beyond http://www.daughtry.ca/ For Graphics and WebDesign, GO here! -----Original Message----- From: Dawn R. Ashford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 1:10 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Recovering lost space I run exeutil about once a month. We're using Small Business Server 4.5 with NT4 Server. It requires shutting down the exchange server, and you need space for the temporary database so it can execute. I have very limited space, and I have to redirect my temp file to a workstation hard drive to have space to run it. But I've never had a problem. I only have experience with one server and one OS.. but it's the only way I know to shrink that database back down. Your database is huge compared to mine; so you're looking at more than a few minutes offline. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 2:42 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Recovering lost space Oops... my apologies... Yes... Exchange 5.5 on W2K. I'll take a look at Eseutil... I think I'd heard in the past that it wasn't the safest thing in the world to use? Or am I thinking of something else??? Thanks, Evan -----Original Message----- From: Dawn R. Ashford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 3:38 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Recovering lost space Is that Exchange 5.5? Eseutil is what you're looking for. Q182903 will give you command line parameters. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 2:35 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Recovering lost space I think this may be a commonly asked question, which is bad because I should be able to find the answer better than I have, but good because it may be easy to answer :-) I've finally got a lot of mail archived to PST's. Probably about $GB in various files. Now, as I think is usually the case, the priv.edb file size has not shrunk (still 8GB). What the safest way to shrink this? While I still have 5GB free on the array, I use NT Backup to backup Exchange to my file server each night. That file then gets picked up on tape, which is only 40GB, and I've been at that limit forever, removing new things from the backup each night to keep it under the limit. I need to cut this size down if possible.... Thanks, Evan List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
