RE: Drives almost at capacity

2003-09-26 Thread Edgington, Jeff
The 'free'd up space' becomes white space in the store... you can see how much space by looking in the eventlog after an online defrag... if you want to physically free the space, you would have to do an offline defrag... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Drives almost at capacity

2003-09-26 Thread Paul Hutchings
Keep an eye on the logs during the next online maintenance window for 1221 events for the private store and it'll show the white space that can be re-used within the database. regards, Paul -- Paul Hutchings Network Administrator, MIRA Ltd. Tel: 44 (0)24 7635 5378, Fax: 44 (0)24 7635 8378

RE: Drives almost at capacity

2003-09-26 Thread Scott Weston
Offline defrag of the exchange db. -Original Message- From: Jake Wallendal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 8:57 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Drives almost at capacity I am waiting for our new server but am almost out of drive space. I had people

RE: Drives almost at capacity

2003-09-26 Thread Randal, Phil
You won't. Exchange takes but doesn't give back. Only an offline defrag will shrink the Information Store files. Cheers, Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Jake Wallendal

RE: Drives almost at capacity

2003-09-26 Thread Fyodorov, Andrey
Read the Application Event log and you will see free whitespace reported there. Event 1221. Sincerely, Andrey Fyodorov Systems Engineer Messaging and Collaboration Spherion -Original Message- From: Jake Wallendal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 9:57 AM To:

RE: Drives almost at capacity

2003-09-26 Thread Couch, Nate
You won't see the PRIV decrease in size when people clean out their mailboxes. All you will see is an increase in the amount of white space in the PRIV (look for 1221 events in your Application Log). Nate Couch EDS Messaging -- From: Jake Wallendal Reply To: Exchange

RE: Drives almost at capacity

2003-09-26 Thread Fyodorov, Andrey
Dang... you beat me to it Sincerely, Andrey Fyodorov Systems Engineer Messaging and Collaboration Spherion -Original Message- From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 10:00 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Drives almost at capacity Keep

RE: Drives almost at capacity

2003-09-26 Thread Jake Wallendal
You all Rule! Thanks so much. I will be singing everyones praises for the rest of the week! _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface:

RE: Drives almost at capacity

2003-09-26 Thread Jake Wallendal
THe event logs say that I only have 1 megabyte of drive space. I am also getting 9582 warnings saying that Virtual memory is fragmented. I have restarted the services but the warnigs seem to be happening alot. _ List posting FAQ:

RE: Drives almost at capacity

2003-09-26 Thread Fyodorov, Andrey
Subject: RE: Drives almost at capacity THe event logs say that I only have 1 megabyte of drive space. I am also getting 9582 warnings saying that Virtual memory is fragmented. I have restarted the services but the warnigs seem to be happening alot

RE: Drives almost at capacity

2003-09-26 Thread Jake Wallendal
my bad. The Priv and 24 MB when the online defrag was done. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=lang=english To

RE: Drives almost at capacity

2003-09-26 Thread Martin Blackstone
Do you have deleted item retention enabled? 24 Mb is a drop in the ocean. -Original Message- From: Jake Wallendal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 7:30 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Drives almost at capacity my bad. The Priv and 24 MB when

RE: Drives almost at capacity

2003-09-26 Thread Fyodorov, Andrey
Messaging and Collaboration Spherion -Original Message- From: Jake Wallendal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 10:30 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Drives almost at capacity my bad. The Priv and 24 MB when the online defrag was done

RE: Drives almost at capacity

2003-09-26 Thread Randal, Phil
] Sent: 26 September 2003 15:36 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Drives almost at capacity Looks like your users did not clean that much after all... Are you using deleted item retention? If so, how many days? The mail that users have deleted is probably sitting there now and will sit

RE: Drives almost at capacity

2003-09-26 Thread Jake Wallendal
The clown who worked before me had 90 day retention of deleted items. So I will be taking care of that tonight! Thanks so much. Again you guys rule a whole bunch! If you are ever in Milwaukee, Wisconsin call me for a free dinner! _

Re: Drives almost at capacity

2003-09-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- From: Jake Wallendal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: September 26, 2003 11:36 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Drives almost at capacity The clown who worked before me had 90 day retention of deleted items. So I will be taking care of that tonight! Thanks so much. Again you guys rule

RE: Drives almost at capacity

2003-09-26 Thread Woodruff, Michael
180? Wow. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 12:55 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Drives almost at capacity That Clown may have just been enforcing some management decision

RE: Drives almost at capacity

2003-09-26 Thread Martin Blackstone
: Friday, September 26, 2003 9:55 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Drives almost at capacity That Clown may have just been enforcing some management decision or being just plain prudent. A 90 day retention is the minimum that I would have on my server. 180 days is more like it. It has saved

RE: Drives almost at capacity

2003-09-26 Thread Fyodorov, Andrey
: Friday, September 26, 2003 12:55 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Drives almost at capacity That Clown may have just been enforcing some management decision or being just plain prudent. A 90 day retention is the minimum that I would have on my server. 180 days is more like it. It has saved my

RE: Drives almost at capacity

2003-09-26 Thread Fyodorov, Andrey
:56 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Drives almost at capacity We do 30 days and have never needed any more. But different business's have different needs. Jake, I suspect if you cut that number in half today, by tomorrow you will have a lot more white space to work with. -Original