Michael, I had read about that option. Have you done it before? Do you have to move all mailboxes over i.e. system mailbox etc?
Regards, David ----- Original Message ---- From: Michael B. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues <exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 11:10:16 AM Subject: RE: New to this List - Recovering Exchange Free Space Question Is the only thing on the disk the exchange database? How much actual whitespace is in the database? (You'll get that every morning in an Application Event 1221 after online maintenance completes.) Unless it's over 30%, I wouldn't even conceive of doing a defrag. I would tend to buy a cheap RAID-1 USB disk, like from Lacie or StorageTek. Hook it up. Mount a new database on the USB disk. Move all the mailboxes to it. Drop the old database. Recreate it on the old disk. Move the mailboxes back. Little to no downtime whatsoever. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -----Original Message----- From: David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 1:14 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: New to this List - Recovering Exchange Free Space Question I have just deleted a bunch of old users off of my exchange server. I now have a bunch of free space available within the exchange database. I only have about 10% of actual space on the disk itself which i believe is causing some degradation in performance. I would like to get that space back but I really can't afford to take the server off line and defrag it for ten hours (100gb database). Do you know of any other alternatives? ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
