I strongly recommend against using a network share to store the temporary db unless you absolutely definitely have to. If you don't have disk space for it, just add a few disks and create a temporary new partition on the server.
S. -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Duey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 2:18 PM To: Exchange Discussions Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Fragmentation in mail database You Need to do a off-line defrag to regain the lost space. If you don't have room you can use network space to do the defrag of the database and then copy the compacted database back. There's a Q article about it on the MS support site. --Andrew Duey, MCSE -----Original Message----- From: Davinder Gupta [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 1:10 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Fragmentation in mail database We just setup a new mail server and I have been moving bunch of mailboxes to new mail server. As a result of this, the old mail server has tons of empty space and needs to be defragged. IS this something normal to do? Or is there any other to accomplish the same thing? Thanks Davinder _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]